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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 horse·fly /-ˌflaɪ/
 馬蠅

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 horse·fly /ˈhɔrsˌflaɪ/ 名詞
 虻

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Horse·fly n.; pl. Horseflies
 1. Zool. Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.
 Note: ☞ Of these flies there are numerous species, both in Europe and America. They have a large proboscis with four sharp lancets for piercing the skin. Called also breeze fly. See Illust. under Diptera, and Breeze fly.
 2. Zool. The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 horsefly
      n 1: winged fly parasitic on horses [syn: horse tick, Hippobosca
            equina]
      2: large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various
         animals [syn: cleg, clegg, horse fly]