Crossword clues for horseflies
horseflies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horsefly \Horse"fly`\, n.; pl. Horseflies.
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(Zo["o]l.) Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanid[ae], that stings horses, and sucks their blood.
Note: Of these flies there are numerous species, both in Europe and America. They have a large proboscis with four sharp lancets for piercing the skin. Called also breeze fly. See Illust. under Diptera, and Breeze fly.
(Zo["o]l.) The horse tick or forest fly ( Hippobosca).
Wiktionary
n. (plural of horsefly English)
Usage examples of "horseflies".
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.