Usually means: Biting flies, often near horses.
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  1. horseflies: Merriam-Webster
  2. horseflies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. horseflies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. horseflies: Vocabulary.com
  5. horseflies: Wordnik
  6. horseflies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. horseflies: Wiktionary
  8. Horseflies, horseflies: Dictionary.com
  9. horseflies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Horseflies: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Horseflies: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Horseflies: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. horseflies: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Horseflies: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Horseflies: Encyclopedia

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  1. horseflies: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (horsefly)

noun:  Any of several medium to large flies, of the family Tabanidae, that suck the blood of mammals (not to be confused with Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable fly, or dog fly).
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