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Dipterous insect
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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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases [syn: Musca domestica ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The housefly (also house fly , house-fly or common housefly ), Musca domestica , is a fly of the suborder Cyclorrhapha . It is believed to have evolved in the Cenozoic era, possibly in the Middle East, and has spread all over the world. It is the most common ...
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also house-fly , early 15c., from house (n.) + fly (n.).
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.