bots

/bots/US // bɒts //UK // (bɒts) //

机器人

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Veterinary Pathology.
- : a disease affecting various mammals, especially horses, caused by the attachment of the parasitic larvae of botflies to the stomach of the host.

One of Orson Pratt's horses is very sick, supposed to be the bots.
The committee also say that mules are not subject to such ailments as horses--spavin, glanders, ringbone, and bots.
Cows do die of bots sometimes hereabouts, after trespassing; but then you know they also die of a surfeit of wet clover.
The most important of these are bots and other larv or maggots of various flies (Diptera).
Mr Charles Danford presented me with several bots from an ibex.