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Definition of Gadfly

Gadfly
Gadfly Gad"fly`, n.; pl. Gadflies. [Gad + fly.] (Zo["o]l.) Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies. Note: The sheep gadfly (Oestrus ovis) deposits its young in the nostrils of sheep, and the larv[ae] develop in the frontal sinuses. The common species which infests cattle (Hypoderma bovis) deposits its eggs upon or in the skin where the larv[ae] or bots live and produce sores called wormels. The gadflies of the horse produce the intestinal parasites called bots. See Botfly, and Bots. The true horseflies are often erroneously called gadflies, and the true gadflies are sometimes incorrectly called breeze flies. Gadfly petrel (Zo["o]l.), one of several small petrels of the genus Oestrelata.

Meaning of Gadfly from wikipedia

- Look up gadfly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gadfly most commonly refers to: Horse fly or botfly Gadfly (philosophy and social science), a person...
- The Gadfly is a novel by Irish-born British writer Ethel Voynich, published in 1897 (United States, June; Great Britain, September of the same year), set...
- A gadfly is a person who interferes with the status quo of a society or community by posing novel, potentially upsetting questions, usually directed at...
- Free and open-source software portal Gadfly is a relational database management system written in Python. Gadfly is a collection of Python modules that...
- The gadfly petrels or Pterodroma are a genus of about 35 species of petrels, part of the seabird order Procellariiformes. The gadfly petrels are named...
- The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a, is a suite for orchestra arranged by Levon Atovmyan from Dmitri Shostakovich's score for the 1955 Soviet film The Gadfly, based...
- borne the name HMS Gadfly: HMS Gadfly (1856) was a Cheerful-class **** gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1864. HMS Gadfly (1879) was an Ant-class...
- The gadfly, a type of fly, known for plaguing cattle, appears in Gr**** mythology as a tormenter of Pegasus and Io, a human lover of Zeus. In the story...
- designation 9K37 Buk and was identified in the west with the NATO reporting name "Gadfly" as well as the US Department of Defense (DoD) designation SA-11.[citation...
- The Gadfly (Russian: Овод, romanized: Ovod) is a 1955 Soviet historical action film based on the novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich and directed by Aleksandr...