Look up: gadfly

1. gadfly
   [n] - any of various large flies that annoy livestock
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2. Gadfly
   NATO designation for soviet surface-to-air missile system Buk-M1 [SU]
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3. gadfly
   D.one that stimulates or provoques to activity and esp. to the analysis and defense of ideas by persistent criticism esp. of an irritating pointed kind. Category: Education
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4. Gadfly
   Gad'fly` noun ; plural Gadflies . [ Gad + fly .] (Zoology) Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus , and allied genera of botflies. » The sheep gadfly ( Oestrus ovis ) deposits its young...
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5. gadfly
   <entomology> Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies. ... The sheep gadfly (Oestrus ovis) deposits its young in the nostrils of sheep, and the larvae develop in the frontal sinuses. The common species which infests cattle (Hypoderma bovis) deposits its eggs upo...
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6. gadfly
   noun any of various large flies that annoy livestock
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7. Gadfly
   A nickname for a 'professional' securityholder who owns stock in various companies, attends annual meetings and asks senior management hard and often embarrassing questions.
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8. Gadfly
   • (n.) Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.
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9. Gadfly
   [mythology] The gadfly, a type of fly plaguing cattle, typically ones belonging to either the family Tabanidae (horse-flies) or the family Oestridae (bot flies), appears in Greek mythology as a tormenter to Io, the heifer maiden. Zeus lusts after Io and eventually turns her into a white heif...
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10. Gadfly
    [database] Gadfly is a relational database management system written in Python. Gadfly is a collection of Python modules that provides relational database functionality entirely implemented in Python. It supports a subset of the standard RDBMS Structured Query Language (SQL). Gadfly runs whe...
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11. gadfly
    Type: Term Pronunciation: gad′flī See: Tabanus
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12. gadfly
    
    • a persistently annoying person
    • any of various large flies that annoy livestock
    
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13. gadfly
    gadfly, name for various biting flies, especially those that attack livestock, e.g., the botfly and the horsefly.
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14. Gadfly
    Gadfly is a name commonly applied to various insects, a large number of which belong to the great Linnaean genus OEstrus, while others belong to the genus Tabanus. OEstrus bovis or ox gadfly (the Hypoderma bovis of some naturalists) is about 7 lines in length with a yellow thorax, with a black band;...
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