The blowfly was her next victim, but an unexciting one. Pulling off its legs, she placed it with the hornet, and both lay side by side unprotestingly.
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Blowfly
//ˈbloʊˌflaɪ//
Synonyms for "blowfly" (3 found)
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36 translations across 26 languages.
Bislama
1 entries- bluflae noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Bulgarian
1 entries- муха месарка noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 綠頭蒼蠅 /绿头苍蝇 noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
- 麗蠅 /丽蝇 noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Dutch
2 entries- aasvlieg noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
- bromvlieg noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Esperanto
1 entries- kaliforo noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Finnish
1 entries- raatokärpänen noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
French
1 entries- mouche à viande noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Galician
2 entries- moscón noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
- vareixa noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
German
3 entries- Aasfliege noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
- Schmeiße noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
- Schmeißfliege noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Greek
1 entries- κρεατόμυγα noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Icelandic
1 entries- maðkafluga noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Japanese
1 entries- クロバエ noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Macedonian
1 entries- мува месарка noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Malay
1 entries- langau hijau noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Māori
3 entries- ngaro noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
- rango noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
- rango tamumu noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Navajo
1 entries- tséʼédǫ́ʼii dootłʼizhí noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- spyflue noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- spyfluge noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قورت سیڭكی noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Polish
1 entries- plujka noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Portuguese
1 entries- varejeira noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Russian
1 entries- мясна́я му́ха noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- zujara noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
- zundarača noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
- zunzara noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Spanish
2 entries- moscarda noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
- moscardón noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Swedish
1 entries- spyfluga noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Turkish
1 entries- kurt sineği noun (flies of the family Calliphoridae)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
What is a blow-fly? That is what I thought when I saw them: blow-flies. Is there something dead around here that has not yet begun to stink? I cannot discover where they are coming from; they just appear in the light of the lamp, attracted by the warmth, I suppose, and fly up against the bulb and then drop stunned on the table and flop about groggily until I sweep them away with my sleeve.
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