mouche

Definitions of mouche
  1. noun
    two-winged insects characterized by active flight
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    mouche domestique
    common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases
    mouche tsé-tsé
    bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
    mouche piqueuse
    any of various large flies that annoy livestock
    taon
    stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals
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    diptère
    insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing
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