Definitions for black fly

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

black′ fly`(n.)

or black′fly`

  1. any of various black biting gnats, of the family Simuliidae, that deposit their eggs in forest streams and are aquatic as larvae.

    Category: Entomology

Origin of black fly:

1600–10

Princeton's WordNet

  1. blackfly, black fly, buffalo gnat(noun)

    small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals


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