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plural horseflies
Any of several medium to large flies, of the family Tabanidae, that suck the blood of mammals (not to be confused with Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable fly, or dog fly). quotations examples
It was not a horsefly and it was not a deerfly; it was bigger than either.
2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 36