bush fly

English

Noun

bush fly (plural bush flies)

  1. (Australia) A blow fly of the family Calliphoridae.
    • 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 77:
      The song that lay along the line of hills told of a Dreamtime Ancestor who failed to perform the correct ritual for controlling a bush-fly breeding cycle.
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