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blowfly

US/ˈbloʊˌflaɪ/ uncommon

noun

1.

large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds

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Origin

From blow (“to infest with maggots by depositing eggs upon flesh”) + fly.

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