| 单词 | cheese-hopper |
| 释义 | > as lemmascheese-hopper cheese-hopper n. = cheese-skipper n.In quot. 1985 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Piophilidae > piophila casei cheese fly1817 cheese-hopper1830 1830 J. Rennie Insect Transformations x. 264 The cheese-hopper is furnished with two horny claw-shaped mandibles, which it uses both for digging into the cheese and for moving itself. 1915 A. Schneider Bacteriol. Methods 140 The cheese ‘hopper’ or ‘skipper’ [is] found in and upon old and overripened cheese and in cheeses which have not been properly screened. 1985 C. Portis Masters of Atlantis ix. 102 There are too many backbiters, cankerworms and cheesehoppers in positions of authority. 2008 D. Facaros & M. Pauls Corsica (new ed.) iv. 57 Kept long enough it [sc. Sartinese cheese] decays into tangy casuminadu or casgiu menu, its texture 'whipped' by live maggots or cheese-hoppers. < as lemmas |
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