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bots
[ bots ]
noun
, (used with a plural verb)
- a disease affecting various mammals, especially horses, caused by the attachment of the parasitic larvae of botflies to the stomach of the host.
bots
/ bɒts /
noun
- functioning as singular a digestive disease of horses and some other animals caused by the presence of botfly larvae in the stomach
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You will be able to manually add more people from your organization by clicking the Add people & bots button at the top of the chat window.
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One of Orson Pratt's horses is very sick, supposed to be the bots.
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The committee also say that mules are not subject to such ailments as horses--spavin, glanders, ringbone, and bots.
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Cows do die of bots sometimes hereabouts, after trespassing; but then you know they also die of a surfeit of wet clover.
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The most important of these are bots and other larv or maggots of various flies (Diptera).
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Mr Charles Danford presented me with several bots from an ibex.
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