forest fly
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
forest fly (plural forest flies)
- Any of numerous species of blood-sucking flies of the family Tabanidae.
- A fly of the genus Hippobosca, especially Hippobosca equina; a horse tick.
Translations[edit]
fly of the genus Hippobosca
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “forest fly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)