botts
Meanings
noun
- The disease caused by the maggots of the horse bot fly when they infect the stomach of a horse.
- Infection by maggots under the skin of cows, or by sheep maggots in the frontal sinus of sheep.
Word forms
Etymology
Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag 'maggot'
Related words
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