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/ˈbloʊˌflaɪ/ · noun
Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, or open wounds..
The blowfly was her next victim, but an unexciting one. Pulling off its legs, she placed it with the hornet, and both lay side by side unprotestingly.
What is a blow-fly? That is what I thought when I saw them: blow-flies. Is there something dead around here that has not yet begun to stink? I cannot discover where they are coming from; they just appear in the light of the lamp, attracted by the warmth, I suppose, and fly up against the bulb and then drop stunned on the table and flop about groggily until I sweep them away with my sleeve.
Use blowfly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Blowfly means Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, or open wounds..
Common synonyms include bottlefly, meat fly, blow fly.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The blowfly was her next victim, but an unexciting one. Pulling off its legs, she placed it with the hornet, and both lay side by side unprotestingly.
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