OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11759

blowfly

/ˈbloʊˌflaɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
moscarda • moscardón
Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, or open wounds.
The blowfly was her next victim, but an unexciting one. Pulling off its legs, she placed it with the hornet, and both lay side by side unprotestingly.
What is a blow-fly? That is what I thought when I saw them: blow-flies. Is there something dead around here that has not yet begun to stink? I cannot discover where they are coming…
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