Definition of botfly Botfly

/bɑˈtflajˌ/ - [baflay] - bot•fly

We found 5 definitions of botfly from 5 different sources.

What does botfly mean?

Noun Plural: botflies
botfly - stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals
		gadfly any of various large flies that annoy livestock
		gasterophilus intestinalis, horse botfly parasitic chiefly on horses
		dermatobia hominis, human botfly large tropical American fly; parasitic on humans and other mammals

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botfly (Noun)
One of several dipterous insects of the family Oestridae, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals on which they deposit their eggs.

botfly (n.)
A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.