| 单词 | ear fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasear fly ear fly n. North American any of various horseflies or deer flies (family Tabanidae) that bite the ears of horses; esp. Chrysops vittatus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > genus Chrysops > member of ear fly1806 moose-fly1834 1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 30 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1991) VII. 309 Most of the insects common to the U' States are found here. the butterflies, common house and blowing flies, the horse flies, except the goald coloured ear fly. 1870 C. V. Riley 2nd Ann. Rep. Insects State Missouri 129 The striped Chrysops..is frequently called the ‘Ear-fly’. 1917 E. D. Sanderson & L. M. Peairs School Entomol. 136 The Horse-flies. Tabanidæ... Some are called Ear-flies, some Gad-flies. 2010 D. Bennet & T. Tiner Compl. Up North 144/1 Horse fly alias: gadflies, green-headed monsters, breeze flies, ear flies, tabanids, les taons, family Tabanidae. < as lemmas |
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