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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of pupiparous parasitic insects of the dipterous family Hippoboscidæ, founded by Latreille in 1802.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an arthropod genus of wingless flies including the sheep ked
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