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Noun: hippoboscid
  1. Bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals
    "The veterinarian removed hippoboscids from the sheep's wool";
    - louse fly

Derived forms: hippoboscids

Type of: dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects

Part of: family Hippoboscidae, Hippoboscidae