horsefly

English Thesaurus

1. large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	gadfly,
definition	:	any of various large flies that annoy livestock (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family tabanidae, tabanidae,
definition	:	horseflies (noun.animal)

2. winged fly parasitic on horses (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	hippoboscid, louse fly,
definition	:	bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus hippobosca, hippobosca,
definition	:	type genus of the Hippoboscidae (noun.animal)