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Definition of Blowflies
1. blowfly [n] - See also: blowfly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blowflies
Literary usage of Blowflies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology by James Samuelson, William Crookes (1881)
"The blowflies, which had taken much more frequent liberties with the infectious
specimens than any of their fellow-prisoners, showed not the slightest trace ..."
2. The Journal of Science by Calcutta Asiatic Society (1881)
"The blowflies, which had taken much more frequent liberties with the infectious
specimens than any of their fellow-prisoners, showed not the slightest trace ..."
3. Medical and Veterinary Entomology: A Textbook for Use in Schools and by William Brodbeck Herms (1915)
"Under experimental conditions Graham-Smith2 has produced infected blowflies by
feeding the larvae on meat infected with spores of Bacillus anthracis. ..."
4. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"The relative size of the three basal segments of the antennae varies in different
genera, but usually, as in the blowflies, the house flies, and the tsetse, ..."
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