stable fly

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stable fly (plural stable flies)

  1. Any of several medium-sized flies in the genus Stomoxys, of the family Muscidae that includes the housefly. The genus is unusual among members of that family, in that they suck blood from mammals.
    1. Stomoxys calcitrans.

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