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–noun, plural -flies.

a medium-sized, gray-striped fly, Musca domestica, common around human habitations in nearly all parts of the world.

Also, house fly.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME; see house, fly²

]

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house fly
noun
common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases [syn: housefly]

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ˈhouse-fly noun

the common fly, found throughout the world

Arabic:	ذُبابة البُيوت
Chinese (Simplified):	家蝇
Chinese (Traditional):	家蠅
Czech:	moucha (domácí)
Danish:	husflue
Dutch:	vlieg
Estonian:	toakärbes
Finnish:	huonekärpänen
French:	mouche (commune)
German:	die Stubenflieger
Greek:	μύγα
Hungarian:	(házi)légy
Icelandic:	stóra húsafluga
Indonesian:	lalat
Italian:	mosca comune*

Japanese:	家バエ
Latvian:	muša
Lithuanian:	naminė musė
Norwegian:	husflue
Polish:	mucha pospolita
Portuguese (Brazil):	mosca doméstica
Portuguese (Portugal):	mosca
Romanian:	muscă
Russian:	комнатная муха
Slovak:	mucha domáca
Slovenian:	muha
Spanish:	mosca
Swedish:	husfluga
Turkish:	kara sinek, sinek

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