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bush fly en · NOUN

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1. (Australia) A blow fly of the family Calliphoridae.
   • 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. 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 77:
   • Even so, the small black bush fly still knows how to make its presence felt. 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 136:
   • So fine and unusual is this stretch of weather that the ever-present bush flies and their dull cousins, the fat black march flies, have declared some sort of national holiday and gone to ground. 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 57

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