| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| botfly |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bot·fly |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b t fl  |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also bot fly |
| NOUN: | Any of various stout, two-winged flies, chiefly of the genera Gasterophilus and Oestrus, having larvae that are parasitic on various animals, especially horses and sheep, and sometimes on humans.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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