house fly

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house fly Meaning of "house fly"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases

Synonym(s)

musca domestica

Usage(s):

  1. The Foundation will loan the model fly and an extensive article on the house fly to responsible blind groups.
  2. Many of the ills, the foundation had decided, could be blamed on the common house fly.
  3. Latest undesirable to make good in the Islands is the Oriental fruit fly, an insect slightly smaller than a house fly and conspicuously marked by yellow stripes round its abdomen.
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