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torsalo

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tor-sa-lo
IPA
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A parasitic fly, Dermatobia hominis, which lives as a larva in the skin of mammals, including humans, and uses mosquitoes as a vector.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tórsalo.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

torsalos (plural)

Synonyms

American warble fly human botfly ox-bot ox botfly ox warbler

Questions

What does torsalo mean?
A parasitic fly, Dermatobia hominis, which lives as a larva in the skin of mammals, including humans, and uses mosquitoes as a vector.
Where does torsalo come from?
It is traced to Spanish.

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