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Webster 1913 Edition

(stăg′wûrmˊ)

Noun.

(Zool.)

The larva of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, such as

Oestrus actaeon

, or

Hypoderma actaeon

, which burrows beneath the skin, and

Cephalomyia auribarbis

, which lives in the nostrils.