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单词 common housefly
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common housefly
housefly n. an extremely common dipteran fly, Musca domestica (family Muscidae), occurring worldwide in and around human habitation, which lays its eggs in excrement and decaying material, and which can present a health hazard through food contamination or transmission of disease; also more fully common housefly.
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c1450 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 29 Ye maye angle for hym wyth an house flye.
a1589 L. Mascall Bk. Fishing (1590) 11 In Iuly then take house flyes and the flyes that doe breede in pysmyre hilles.
1661 M. Stevenson Twelve Moneths 28 The Baits which most entice them, besides the red Worm, are the House-fly in the Summer, and fat of Bacon in the Winter.
1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 132 There are several sorts of Ants, some of which are larger than our common House Flies; these are call'd Horse-Ants.
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic x. 259 The house-fly is well known to have the power of walking in an inverted position upon the ceilings of rooms.
1911 Daily Record (Glasgow) 15 July 3 A big army for the destruction of the house fly with ‘Swat the Fly’ as its battle-cry.
2005 Grow your Own Dec. 85/3 Cabbage root flies look similar to the small houseflies which emerge in April.
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