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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 horse·fly /-ˌflaɪ/
 馬蠅

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 horse·fly /ˈhɔrsˌflaɪ/ 名詞
 虻

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Horse·fly n.; pl. Horseflies
 1. Zool. Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.
 Note:Of these flies there are numerous species, both in Europe and America. They have a large proboscis with four sharp lancets for piercing the skin. Called also breeze fly. See Illust. under Diptera, and Breeze fly.
 2. Zool. The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 horsefly
      n 1: winged fly parasitic on horses [syn: horse tick, Hippobosca
           equina]
      2: large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various
         animals [syn: cleg, clegg, horse fly]