blow-fly








noun

  1. any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Calliphoridae that deposit their eggs or larvae on carrion, excrement, etc., or in wounds of living animals.
n.

1720, from fly (n.) + blow (v.1) in an obsolete sense “to deposit eggs, to infect with eggs,” in reference to to insects, “apparently connected with old notions of natural history” [OED].

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