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tabanid, a. and n.|ˈtæbənɪd|
[f. L. tabānus a gad-fly or horse-fly, adopted by Linnæus (1736, in Acta Soc. R. Scient. Upsaliensis 31) as a generic name, + -id3.]
A. adj. Belonging to the family Tabanidæ of flies, of which Tabanus is the typical genus.
B. n. A fly of this family, a gad-fly.
1891in Cent. Dict. 1892Insect Life V. 59 An examination showed it to be a true Tabanid. 1895Bulletin Illinois Labor. Nat. Hist. 197 As restless as a tabanid larva. Ibid. 199 It was, perhaps, this that the tabanids were feeding upon. 1931K. M. Smith Textbk. Agric. Entom. xi. 163 Tabanid larvae are whitish and occur in the water or soil. 1967V. Nabokov Speak, Memory vi. 137 Because of our ferocious Russian tabanids, one could not leave a horse haltered in a wood for any length of time.
So taˈbaniform a., having the form of a gad-fly (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1860). |