Usually means: Small biting fly, spreads disease.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. blackfly: Merriam-Webster
  2. blackfly: Collins English Dictionary
  3. blackfly: Vocabulary.com
  4. blackfly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. blackfly: Wiktionary
  6. blackfly: Dictionary.com
  7. Blackfly (TV series), Blackfly (disambiguation), Blackfly (film), Blackfly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. blackfly: Rhymezone
  9. blackfly: FreeDictionary.org
  10. blackfly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. blackfly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blackfly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. blackfly: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. blackfly: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (blackfly)

noun:  A black or dark green aphid (Aphis fabae) that is a common pest of agricultural crops.
noun:  Any of various small black bloodsucking flies of the family Simuliidae.

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