SCREWWORM


Meaning of SCREWWORM in English

noun Date: 1879 a blowfly ( Cochliomyia hominivorax ) of the warmer parts of America whose larva develops in sores or wounds or in the nostrils of mammals including humans with serious or sometimes fatal results, any of several flies other than the ~ and especially their larvae which parasitize the flesh of mammals

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