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The botfly or gadfly of cattle (Hypoderma bovis). See Gadfly.
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n.
The gadfly of cattle.
a.
Of or pertaining to the gadflies.
n.
A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.
n.
A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles.
n.
A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies.
pl.
of Gadfly
n.
Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.
n.
The gadfly.
n.
Any large fly troublesome to cattle, as the gadflies and breeze flies.
n.
A genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larvae in the nasal cavities of sheep is oestrus ovis.
n.
Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble.
n.
A gadfly.
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