Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of dipterous insects, typical of the family Sarcophagidæ; the flesh-flies.
- In Owen's classification (1839), a division of marsupials, having teeth of three kinds and no cæcum, as the dasyures, and including a section of the carnivorous marsupials.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of Diptera, including the flesh flies.
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- noun flesh flies
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D'Aguanno 10.69 gives an account of two instances of living larvæ of the musca sarcophaga in the ears of children.
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D'Aguanno gives an account of two instances of living larvae of the musca sarcophaga in the ears of children.
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