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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 Audio Help (hous'flī') Pronunciation Key
n. A common, widely distributed fly (Musca domestica) that frequents human dwellings, breeds in moist or decaying organic matter, and transmits a wide variety of diseases.

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housefly
noun
common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases

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