Definition of Botly
Bot"fly` (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) A
dipterous insect of the family (Estridæ, of many different
species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as
the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common
species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the
larvæ of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the
animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval
states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human
skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A dipterous insect of the family Oestridae, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals on which they deposit their eggs.
bot fly- any of several hairy flies, of the family Oestridae, whose larvae are parasitic in mammals
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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