botts
The disease caused by the maggots of the horse bot fly when they infect the stomach of a horse.
Noun
- The disease caused by the maggots of the horse bot fly when they infect the stomach of a horse.
- Infection by maggots under the skin of cows, or by sheep maggots in the frontal sinus of sheep.
Origin
Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag 'maggot'