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Buzzer in the kitchen, maybe
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housefly
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Word definitions for housefly in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Alice Foley, growing up in Bolton during the 1890s, remembered the plague of houseflies emanating from the privies in summer. ▪ Cluster flies are bristly gray insects, about five times bigger than the ordinary housefly , Musca ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also house-fly , early 15c., from house (n.) + fly (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases [syn: Musca domestica ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
housefly \house"fly`\ n. 1. common fly ( Musca domestica ) that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases. Syn: Musca domestica .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any fly regularly found in human dwellings. 2 # The common housefly, ''Musca domestica'', that frequents most homes and spreads some diseases.
Usage examples of housefly.
And then I began one of my least favorite morphs - the common housefly.
The surplus value accumulation of larval feeding gives way to lavish expenditure: the extravagant coloration of the butterflies, the coprophilic copulation of houseflies and others.
Braving dhobis and houseflies, I concealed myself in the unclean place.
So cultivate your inner housefly or cockroach, instead of your inner child.
The female Musca domestica, or common housefly, typically lays 600-1,000 eggs in the course of her roughly two-month lifetime, most of which grow to maturity in 10-12 days, upon which they can set about raising little maggots of their own.