housefly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++house·fly /ˈhaʊsflaɪ/ noun (plural houseflies) [countable] HBIa common type of fly that lives in people’s houses 家蝇，苍蝇
Examples from the Corpus
housefly• Thousands of individuals, each not quite as big as a housefly make up the swarm.• Even as I listened to him, mosquitoes, fat as houseflies, feasted on my legs.• Alice Foley, growing up in Bolton during the 1890s, remembered the plague of houseflies emanating from the privies in summer.• Cluster flies are bristly gray insects, about five times bigger than the ordinary housefly, Musca domestica.house·fly nounChineseSyllable
that lives fly type in a people’s of Corpus common
housefly
house‧fly /ˈhaʊsflaɪ/
noun (plural houseflies) [countable]
a common type of fly that lives in people’s houses
house‧fly /ˈhaʊsflaɪ/
noun (plural houseflies) [countable]a common type of fly that lives in people’s houses