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ALL meanings of black fly

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  • noun black fly any small blackish stout-bodied dipterous fly of the family Simuliidae, which sucks the blood of man, mammals, and birds 3
  • noun black fly any of a family (Simuliidae) of small, dark, dipterous flies of North American forests and mountains, whose larvae live attached to rocks in swift water: most species live on the blood of mammals and may transmit disease 3
  • noun black fly any of the minute, black gnats of the dipterous family Simuliidae, having aquatic larvae. 1
  • noun black fly Alternative spelling of blackfly. 0
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