flyblow
Meanings
noun
- An egg laid by a fly in animal flesh; a maggot hatched from such an egg.
verb
- To deposit eggs upon, as a blowfly does on flesh; to cause to be maggoty.
- To taint or contaminate.
Word forms
Etymology
From fly + blow.
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