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Meanings of Musca domestica in English

Portuguese
mosca doméstica
Catalan
mosca domèstica
Spanish
musca domestica

Common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases.

mosca doméstica
Synonyms
Examples for "housefly"
Examples for "housefly"
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We'd almost rather have the common housefly spread germs than slogans.
The new yorker
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Dear Blades,- Isendyou an example of the 'enemy'-mosityof an ordinary housefly.
The Enemies of Books
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I've got the peripheral vision of a housefly and two handguns to work with.'
Sign of the cross
4
WAIFE.-Beingyourself a man, you think so: a housefly might be of a different opinion.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05
5
Security was so tight, not even a housefly got into the estate grounds without a permit.
Mistress of the game
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Then there is a fly, which looks something like our house fly.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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The ordinary house fly conveys in this way the organisms of typhoid and dysentery.
Disease and Its Causes
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Baby spiders will eat culture foods such as Thrypolium, drosophilia, fruit fly and house fly larvae.
Free from School
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Like a very tight belt, she thought; would the house fly apart if the veranda came off?
The Haunting of Hill House
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Certain kinds of beetles, and particularly the common house fly, disprove that theory, as their wings are perfectly flat.
Aeroplanes
Translations for Musca domestica