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noun
Any member of the genus Hypoderma of large flies, parasitic on cattle and deer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
hairy bee-like fly whose larvae produce lumpy abscesses (warbles) under the skin of cattle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: gadfly
History
From warble (“a lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma”)
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