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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Flyblow

· Fly·blow · IPA
01 v. t. To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows.
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    To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows.
02 n. One of the eggs or young larvæ deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.
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    One of the eggs or young larvæ deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.(Zool.)