Definitions for black fly
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
black′ fly`(n.)
or black′fly`
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
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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