单词 | earth fly |
释义 | > as lemmasearth fly ΚΠ 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 176 There is a sort of Flies at the Cape which the Europeans call Earth-flies [Ger. der Erd-Floh]. 1768 T. Nugent Trav. Germany II. xix. 274 Cole, and gillyflowers, and especially white-cabbage, and cauliflowers, for preventing the earth-flies, must, in a drought, by plentifully watered. 1824 H. E. Lloyd tr. J. B. von Spix & C. F. P. von Martius Trav. Brazil I. ii. ii. 258 The earth-flies (Pulex penetrans), which are concealed in numbers in the sand, penetrate under the nails of the hands and feet. 1865 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xxvi. 509 The only insect which can be said to be parasitic on man, and at the same time form a habitation, is the celebrated chigoe Pulex penetrans, otherwise called the jigger, or earth fly. < as lemmas |
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