flyblow

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flyblow englanniksi

  1. An egg laid by a fly in animal flesh; a maggot hatched from such an egg.

  2. To deposit eggs upon, as a blowfly does on flesh; to cause to be maggoty.

  3. To taint or contaminate.

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