bush fly

noun

Definitions

  1. A blow fly of the family Calliphoridae.

    • The song that lay along the line of hills told of a Dreamtime Ancestor who failed to perform the correct ritual for controlling a bush-fly breeding cycle.
    • So fine and unusual is this stretch of weather that the ever-present bush flies and their dull cousins, the fat black march flies, have declared some sort of national holiday and gone to ground.
    • Even so, the small black bush fly still knows how to make its presence felt.

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