Noun: blowie blow-ee
Usage: Austral, informal (=blowfly)
Usage: Austral, informal (=blowfly)
- Large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
"blowies play an important role in forensic entomology";
- blowfly, blow fly
Sounds like: blowy
Derived forms: blowies
Type of: fly
Part of: Calliphora, genus Calliphora
Encyclopedia: Blowie