Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various bloodsucking dipteran flies of the family Tabanidae, which includes the horseflies and deerflies.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to the Tabanidæ; related to or resembling a tabanid.
  • noun A fly of the family Tabanidæ; a horse-fly; a deer-fly; a gadfly or breeze.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of or pertaining to the horseflies of the family Tabanidae.
  • noun a horsefly

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin Tabānidae, family name, from Latin tabānus, horsefly.]

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Examples

  • Anyone who has been bitten by a horsefly (formally, a tabanid) knows that they're much more irritating than your average midge or mosquito.

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  • Anyone who has been bitten by a horsefly (formally, a tabanid) knows that they're much more irritating than your average midge or mosquito.

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  • Anyone who has been bitten by a horsefly (formally, a tabanid) knows that they're much more irritating than your average midge or mosquito.

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  • Anyone who has been bitten by a horsefly (formally, a tabanid) knows that they're much more irritating than your average midge or mosquito.

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  • "We would like to mention that we are preparing a separate paper on the effect of stripes on host animals like zebra, okapi, etc. to the attraction of tabanid flies.

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  • "We would like to mention that we are preparing a separate paper on the effect of stripes on host animals like zebra, okapi, etc. to the attraction of tabanid flies.

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  • We show that such stripes make the host quite tabanid-repellent. "

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  • "We would like to mention that we are preparing a separate paper on the effect of stripes on host animals like zebra, okapi, etc. to the attraction of tabanid flies.

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  • "We would like to mention that we are preparing a separate paper on the effect of stripes on host animals like zebra, okapi, etc. to the attraction of tabanid flies.

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  • We show that such stripes make the host quite tabanid-repellent. "

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