WARBLE FLY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Hairy bee-like fly whose larvae produce lumpy abscesses (warbles) under the skin of cattle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("warble fly" is a kind of...):

gadfly (any of various large flies that annoy livestock)

Holonyms ("warble fly" is a member of...):

genus Hypoderma; Hypoderma (in some classifications considered the type genus of the family Hypodermatidae: warble flies)

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