الإنجليزية - التركية
تعريف screwworm في الإنجليزية التركية القاموس.
- (Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) kurt sineği larvası
الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
تعريف screwworm في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
- The larva of the fly Cochliomyia hominivorax (new world screwworm) or Chrysomya bezziana (old word screwworm). The larva can be parasitic in humans and animals and are distinctive in eating living flesh of mammals unlike most maggots which eat only dead flesh
- {i} (Zoology) larva of the blowfly (infests humans and animals and spreads disease)
- Any of several North and South American blowfly species named for the screwlike appearance of the larva's body, which is ringed with small spines. Screwworms attack livestock and other animals, including humans. The true screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) and the secondary screwworm (Callitroga macellaria) develop in decaying flesh; they may also attack healthy tissue. Each female deposits 200-400 eggs near an open wound. The larvae burrow into the tissue and, when mature, drop to the ground to pupate. Severe infestations (myiasis) may kill the affected animal
- screwworm fly
- A bluish fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax) of the New World that breeds in the living tissue of mammals, having penetrated chiefly through open wounds or the nostrils, and whose parasitic larvae cause serious injury or death to livestock
- screwworms
- plural of screwworm