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lagong [la.gung.] : blowfly (n.); bluebottle (n.) [langaw]; Calliphora vomitoria (n.) [insekto]; gadfly (n.)
Related words: langaw

Derivatives of lagong


Glosses:
blowfly
n. (animal)1. blow fly, blowflylarge usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds.
~ flytwo-winged insects characterized by active flight.
~ calliphora, genus calliphoratype genus of the Calliphoridae: blowflies.
~ calliphora vicina, bluebottleblowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight.
~ greenbottle, greenbottle flyblowfly with brilliant coppery green body.
bluebottle
n. (plant)1. bachelor's button, bluebottle, centaurea cyanus, cornfloweran annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers.
~ flowera plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms.
~ centaurea, genus centaureaknapweed; star thistle.
n. (animal)2. bluebottle, calliphora vicinablowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight.
~ blow fly, blowflylarge usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds.
gadfly
n. (person)1. blighter, cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterera persistently annoying person.
~ nudnick, nudnik(Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest.
~ persecutor, tormenter, tormentorsomeone who torments.
n. (animal)2. gadflyany of various large flies that annoy livestock.
~ flytwo-winged insects characterized by active flight.
~ botflystout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals.
~ warble flyhairy bee-like fly whose larvae produce lumpy abscesses (warbles) under the skin of cattle.
~ cleg, clegg, horse fly, horseflylarge swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.