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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The larva of one of several bot-flies which infest the stag.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The larva of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, such as
Œstrus actæon , orHypoderma actæon , which burrows beneath the skin, andCephalomyia auribarbis , which lives in the nostrils.
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