| 单词 | dung fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdung fly dung fly n. any of various flies of the family Scathophagidae, which typically lay their eggs in dung and feed on it as larvae, esp. Scathophaga stercoraria.In quot. 1652 probably: a scarab beetle.Cf. cow-dung fly n. at cow n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Chloropidae > member of genus Scatophaga dung fly1652 1652 W. Jenkyn Expos. Jude: 1st Pt. v. 392 No people idolized so many, and such vile creatures as did the Egyptians; the Mole, the Bat, the Cat, the dung-flie, Monkies, Birds, Crocodiles. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. Ffff4 Merdivora or Dung-flies are of divers sorts. 1874 Reynolds's Newspaper 5 Apr. 2/6 The Tories, like dung flies, live on corruption. 1982 J. M. Smith Evol. & Theory of Games iii. 30 Female dung flies come to fresh cowpats to lay their eggs. 2005 Amer. Naturalist 165 73/2 The influence of sexual selection on reproductive traits in the yellow dung-fly Scatophaga stercoraria. < as lemmas |
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