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Horse fly   /hɔrs flaɪ/   Listen
Horse fly

noun
1.
Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.  Synonyms: cleg, clegg, horsefly.






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"Horse fly" Quotes from Famous Books



... us at the front entrance of the grounds, and, returning to the King's Arms, we ordered a one-horse fly for the fall of Lodore. Our drive thither was along the banks of Derwentwater, and it is as beautiful a road, I imagine, as can be found in England or anywhere else. I like Derwentwater the best of all the lakes, so far as I have yet seen them. Skiddaw ...
— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne



Words linked to "Horse fly" :   family Tabanidae, clegg, cleg, Tabanidae, gadfly, horsefly



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