Definitions for flesh-fly

flesh-fly flesh fly

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

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in flesh-fly (-effhllsy).

Definitions for flesh-fly

noun

  1. any fly of the family Sarcophagidae, comprising species that deposit their eggs or larvae in carrion or in the flesh of living animals.

Origin of flesh-fly

Middle English word dating back to 1275-1325

Examples for flesh-fly

The flesh fly's maggots, though incomparable liquefiers, know nothing of this peril, even in a puddle of carrion broth.

From time to time, the bluebottle and the flesh fly perch on the trellis-work, make a short investigation and then decamp.

From what height will the flesh fly dare to let her children drop?

How is the parasite's inroad into the flesh fly's pupae effected?

The fact remains that, despite the attraction of the scent, the flesh fly does not expose her worms to disproportionate falls.

Here swarm in common the grubs of the greenbottle, the flesh fly and the bluebottle.

The flesh fly, Musca Cæsar, or the Blue-bottle fly, feeds upon decaying animal matter.

Then the bluebottle, the flesh fly and other flies whose grubs batten on dead bodies are kept at a proper distance.

As her evidence was doubtful, I had recourse to the flesh fly (Sarcophaga carnaria).

I have gathered a number of pupae of the flesh fly in one of my vermin jars.

Word Value for flesh-fly
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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