"housefly" meaning in English

See housefly in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: houseflies [plural]
Etymology: From house + fly. Cognate with Dutch huisvlieg (“housefly”), Danish husflue (“housefly”), Swedish husfluga (“housefly”), Faroese húsfluga (“housefly”). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|house|fly}} house + fly, {{cog|nl|huisvlieg||housefly}} Dutch huisvlieg (“housefly”), {{cog|da|husflue||housefly}} Danish husflue (“housefly”), {{cog|sv|husfluga||housefly}} Swedish husfluga (“housefly”), {{cog|fo|húsfluga||housefly}} Faroese húsfluga (“housefly”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} housefly (plural houseflies)
  1. Any fly regularly found in human dwellings. Categories (lifeform): Muscoid flies
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  2. Any fly regularly found in human dwellings.
    The common housefly, Musca domestica, that frequents most homes and spreads some diseases.
    Wikidata QID: Q166111 Categories (lifeform): Muscoid flies
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: house fly, house-fly Translations (fly): eangaw (Aklanon), ذُبَابَة مَنْزِلِيَّة (alt: ḏubāba(t) manziliyya) [feminine] (Arabic), otaq milçəyi (Azerbaijani), etxe-euli (Basque), mosca comuna [feminine] (Catalan), langaw (Cebuano), 家蠅 (Chinese Mandarin), 家蝇 (jiāyíng) (Chinese Mandarin), moucha domácí [feminine] (Czech), huisvlieg [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), harilik toakärbes (Estonian), húsfluga [feminine] (Faroese), búfluga [feminine] (Faroese), huonekärpänen (Finnish), mouche domestique [feminine] (French), Stubenfliege [feminine] (German), Flüüge [Alemannic-German, feminine] (German), langaw (Hiligaynon), ᑎᒻᒥᕗᖅ (timmifoq) (Inuktitut), mosca domestica [feminine] (Italian), 家蝿 (iebae) (alt: いえばえ) (Japanese), langaw (Kinaray-a), 집파리 (jip'pari) (Korean), Musca Domestica [feminine] (Latin), ഈച്ച (īcca) (Malayalam), ngaro huka (Maori), tséʼédǫ́ʼii (Navajo), moûque dé tchuîsinne [feminine] (Norman), قره سیڭك (kara siñek) (Ottoman Turkish), mucha domowa [feminine] (Polish), mosca doméstica [feminine] (Portuguese), muscă de casă [feminine] (Romanian), ко́мнатная му́ха (kómnatnaja múxa) [feminine] (Russian), nhunzi (Shona), mosca doméstica [feminine] (Spanish), mosca común [feminine] (Spanish), husfluga [common-gender] (Swedish), langaw (Tagalog), karasinek (Turkish), ruồi nhà (Vietnamese), pryf tŷ [masculine] (Welsh), pry ffenestr [masculine] (Welsh), cleren tai [feminine] (Welsh)
Disambiguation of 'fly': 50 50

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    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kómnatnaja múxa",
      "sense": "fly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ко́мнатная му́ха"
    },
    {
      "code": "sn",
      "lang": "Shona",
      "sense": "fly",
      "word": "nhunzi"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mosca doméstica"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mosca común"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "fly",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "husfluga"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "fly",
      "word": "langaw"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "fly",
      "word": "karasinek"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "fly",
      "word": "ruồi nhà"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "fly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pryf tŷ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "fly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pry ffenestr"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "fly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cleren tai"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "housefly"
  ],
  "word": "housefly"
}

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