Search for crossword answers and clues
Equine pest?
Answer for the clue "Equine pest? ", 8 letters:
horsefly
Alternative clues for the word horsefly
Word definitions for horsefly in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breeze \Breeze\, Breeze fly \Breeze" fly`\, n. [OE. brese, AS. bri['o]sa; perh. akin to OHG. brimissa, G. breme, bremse, D. brems, which are akin to G. brummen to growl, buzz, grumble, L. fremere to murmur; cf. G. brausen, Sw. brusa, Dan. bruse, to ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Gnats the size of horseflies buzzed around our ears. ▪ He watched her crash a magazine against the wall, trying to bat a horsefly .
Usage examples of horsefly.
Already they were stirring, bluebottles and greenbottles and horseflies not too finicky to feast on human flesh as well.
Despite the insecticide, horseflies, deerflies and mosquitoes followed.
Horseflies and deerflies took themselves off to wherever it was they went during the dark hours but the mosquitoes remained, a cloud of mindless hunger hovering over the camp.
There were deerflies and horseflies and dragonflies, looking like winged miniatures of their species.
I can tell you a lot more about horseflies, or we can talk a little about Zen--"
But if I called Ellita and told her you were studying a three-volume set of books on Ethiopian horseflies, I think she'd be up here like a shot--"
Hoke shrugged, picked up the three volumes on horseflies, and went downstairs to Dr.
Like the Yellow Bears, they would start for the tall-grass country when the horseflies appeared.
The horseflies have troubled our horses here for weeks, but I had heard nothing of any Wolves or Yellow Bears.
Cole are grazing stock at Raulerson Prairie at Cape Sable, but Papa says the horseflies and mosquitoes will show them what damn fools they are if the poor coast grass doesn't starve their cattle first.
The pear crop was poor and the horseflies bad, but there were no mosquitoes yet to speak of.
Now that the breezes had subsided, and the temperature was higher, the flies were back, and they were horseflies with a nasty bite.
No one spoke during our rapid climb to orbit (not that you can hear yourself think, much less carry on a conversation, anywhere near a horsefly when its engine is putting out that banshee shriek) .