Definitions for blow-fly

blow-fly blow fly

Blow-Fly is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in blow-fly (-bfllowy).

Definitions for blow-fly

noun

  1. any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Calliphoridae that deposit their eggs or larvae on carrion, excrement, etc., or in wounds of living animals.

Origin of blow-fly

First recorded in 1815-25

Examples for blow-fly

Front region of Maggot of blow-fly (Calliphora) showing diagrammatically the imaginal discs, which are shaded.

A blow-fly buzzed, a fan of whity steam came out of the kettle, and the lid kept up a rattling jig as the water bubbled.

But there was no answer; only the cobwebs moved there, though I thought I heard a faint buzzing, which might have been a blow-fly.

The larv of the blow-fly are well known to the angler, who uses them for bait, and calls them gentles.

One wonders what he would have made of a blow-fly buzzing on the pane.

The flies that troubled me most were a large kind of blue-bottle or blow-fly.

Six P.M., a little extract smeared on the head of a blow-fly.

All these parts are better seen in the proboscis of the blow-fly than in that of the house-fly, on account of their larger size.

And then reflect upon the motor-scorcher and the earthworm and the blow-fly.

I'm a worm, a maggot, brother to the pollywog an' child of the blow-fly.

Word Value for blow-fly
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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