meat fly
Appearance
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]meat fly (plural meat flies)
- blowfly
- 1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page i. 16:
- The incredibly long body as well as the extended wings were of a gleaming purplish-gray colour: I can only liken it to that of a meat fly or common "bluebottle".