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warble fly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English

Syllables
war-ble fly
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the genus Hypoderma of large flies, parasitic on cattle and deer.

Etymology

From warble (“a lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma”)

Inflected Forms

warble flies (plural) warblefly (alternative)

Phrases

ox warble fly cattle warble fly (Hypoderma lineatum reindeer warble fly

Synonyms

heel fly bomb fly gadfly cattle grub wolf

Questions

What does warble fly mean?
Any member of the genus Hypoderma of large flies, parasitic on cattle and deer.
Where does warble fly come from?
From warble (“a lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma”)

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