Usually means: Fly species that consume carrion.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. flesh fly: Merriam-Webster
  2. flesh fly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flesh fly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flesh fly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flesh fly: Vocabulary.com
  6. flesh fly: Wordnik
  7. flesh-fly, flesh fly: Wiktionary
  8. flesh fly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. flesh fly: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. flesh fly: Dictionary.com
  11. Flesh-fly, Flesh fly (fly fishing), Flesh fly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. flesh fly: Rhymezone
  13. flesh fly: FreeDictionary.org
  14. flesh fly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. flesh fly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Flesh-fly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. flesh fly: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Flesh-fly, flesh fly: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (flesh fly)

▸ noun:  any fly of the family Sarcophagidae that feed on carrion

Similar:
sarcophaga carnaria, flesh-fly, fleshfly, blowfly, meat fly, forest fly, carrion beetle, blow fly, stable fly, moth fly, more...

Types:
bluebottle, greenbottle, horsefly, daddy longlegs, humpbacked fly, bee fly, bottle fly, more...

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Similar:
sarcophaga carnaria, flesh-fly, fleshfly, blowfly, meat fly, forest fly, carrion beetle, blow fly, stable fly, moth fly, more...

Types:
bluebottle, greenbottle, horsefly, daddy longlegs, humpbacked fly, bee fly, bottle fly, more...



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