forest fly

English edit

Noun edit

forest fly (plural forest flies)

Any of numerous species of blood-sucking flies of the family Tabanidae.
A fly of the genus Hippobosca, especially Hippobosca equina; a horse tick.

Translations edit

fly of the family Tabanidae

Finnish: paarma (fi)

fly of the genus Hippobosca

Finnish: hevoskärpänen (Hippobosca equina)
Italian: mosca cavallina f, mosca culaia (it) f (Tuscany)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “forest fly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)