Word: botflies
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: bot
flies
Definition: Plural of botfly; stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals
Morphemes:
Affix: bot
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
Affix: fly
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called .
Affix: -ies
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural forms of nouns endings in consonant-y.