gadfly
English Thesaurus
1. any of various large flies that annoy livestock (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | fly, |
| definition | : | two-winged insects characterized by active flight (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | botfly, |
| definition | : | stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | warble fly, |
| definition | : | hairy bee-like fly whose larvae produce lumpy abscesses (warbles) under the skin of cattle (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cleg, clegg, horse fly, horsefly, |
| definition | : | large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals (noun.animal) |
2. a persistently annoying person (noun.person)
| hyponym | : | nudnick, nudnik, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest (noun.person) |
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