botts

  1. Noun.  The disease caused by the maggots of the horse bot fly (Gasterophilus Oestrus Equi) when they infect the stomach of a horse.
  2. Noun.  (context, by extension) Infection by gadfly maggots (Gasterophilus Oestrus Bovis) under the skin of cows, or by sheep maggots (Gasterophilus Oestrus Ovis) in the frontal sinus of sheep.

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