1. An undercover police officer who investigates other policemen
   "The shoofly was assigned to root out corruption within the department"
    
2. A child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck)
   "The toddler giggled as she rocked back and forth on the swan-shaped shoofly"

1. Coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry
   "Shoo fly plants added color to the tropical garden";
   - apple of Peru, Nicandra physaloides

Derived forms: shooflies

Type of: bobby [Brit, informal], herb, herbaceous plant, officer, plod [Brit, informal], police officer, rocker, rocking chair

Part of: genus Nicandra, Nicandra

Encyclopedia: Shoofly