Usually means: Parasitic flies feeding on birds.
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  1. hippoboscid: Vocabulary.com
  2. hippoboscid, hippoboscid: Wordnik
  3. hippoboscid: Wiktionary
  4. hippoboscid: Dictionary.com
  5. hippoboscid: Rhymezone
  6. hippoboscid: FreeDictionary.org
  7. hippoboscid: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. hippoboscid: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Any of the species in the Hippoboscidae family of parasitic flies.

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louse fly, hippoboscoid, forest fly, hippo fly, blind-fly, horsefly, orthophlebiid, dance fly, horse bot fly, borborid, more...

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louse fly, hippoboscoid, forest fly, hippo fly, blind-fly, horsefly, orthophlebiid, dance fly, horse bot fly, borborid, more...



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