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Housefly   Listen
noun
housefly  n.  
1.
Common fly (Musca domestica) that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases.
Synonyms: Musca domestica.





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"Housefly" Quotes from Famous Books



... it, the Old Folks never made such a fuss about flies as we make nowadays. You cannot pick up a magazine without running plump into an article on the deadly housefly—with pictures of him magnified until he looks like the old million-toed, barrel-eyed, spike-tailed dragon of your boyhood mince-pie dreams. The first two pages convince you that the human race is doomed to extermination within eighteen ...
— The Long Ago • Jacob William Wright


Words linked to "Housefly" :   Musca domestica, Musca, fly, house fly


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