haematobia

English Thesaurus

1. European genus of bloodsucking flies (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	arthropod genus,
definition	:	a genus of arthropods (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	haematobia irritans, horn fly,
definition	:	small black European fly introduced into North America; sucks blood from cattle especially at the base of the horn (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	diptera, order diptera,
definition	:	a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies (noun.animal)