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housefly
or house fly
[ hous-flahy ]
noun
plural houseflies.
- a medium-sized, gray-striped fly, Musca domestica, common around human habitations in nearly all parts of the world.
housefly
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noun
- a common dipterous fly, Musca domestica, that frequents human habitations, spreads disease, and lays its eggs in carrion, decaying vegetables, etc: family Muscidae
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Innumerable bugs, each one less than half the size of a housefly, but primed to chaw their way through a $16-billion California industry exactly like you did to that bag of chips.
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The Oriental fruit fly, which is slightly larger than a housefly at around 8 millimeters long, is generally bright yellow.
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Federal, state and local agricultural officials plan to eradicate the fly, which is about the size of a housefly with black and yellow markings.
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This one guy was just like a housefly.
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People can be forgiving, our attention spans rival the life cycle of a housefly — one of the plot’s premises — move on.
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