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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various flies of the family Sarcophagidae whose larvae are parasitic in animal tissue or feed on carrion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common name of a group of exclusively carnivorous dipterous insects, the blow-flies, such as those of the genus Sarcophaga.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
flesh-fly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fly whose larvae feed on carrion or the flesh of living animals
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