greenflyn.

Brit.

/ˈɡriːnflʌɪ/, U.S.

/ˈɡrinˌflaɪ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: green adj., fly n.¹

Etymology: < green adj. + fly n.¹

1. Greenish aphids or plant lice collectively, many kinds of which are pests of cultivated plants. Also: an individual insect of this kind.In quot. 1741 probably some other kind of green insect.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis

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a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1683) II. iii. 15 We are like those slight small green flies that creep upon leaves in Summer; we Men cannot touch them so gently but they dye.

1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May xv. 184 An Insect seldom, or never, misses attacking our green Cherries with so much Diligence and Fury, as to spoil great Numbers of them, by eating into their very Stone; and, because of this hollow Operation, we call them Ladlemen, or the Green Fly.

1849 Florist 35 Flowers in windows..are peculiarly liable..to be infested with green-fly (Aphis).

1897 Argosy Dec. 740 Miss Merton, there's a greenfly on your cheek.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiii. 246 A huge number of insects live as parasites on plants, such as..the green-flies or Aphides.

1987 K. Rushforth Tree Planting & Managem. (1990) vii. 118 A number of trees are hosts to various aphids, i.e. greenfly or blackfly.

1992 Canad. Gardening June 55/2 If greenflies plague your plants, consider using earwigs to fight the battle.

2001 Exotic & Greenhouse Gardening June 18/3 Greenfly can be a problem on new growth but an insecticide..should easily keep this under control.

2. Angling. Chiefly in form green fly. A kind of artificial fly.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of

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Waterloo fly1837

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Alexandra1875

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Zulu1898

thunder and lightning1910

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1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 182/1 The Shell-flye, Termed also the Green-fly, hath his body made of Greenish-wooll.

1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee viii, in Tales Fashionable Life VI. 97 The green-fly, and the moorish-fly!

1867 T. Burgess Angling xviii. 158 From the 1st April to 1st May, all shades of green flies answer well, with green hackles.

1914 A. E. Gathorne-Hardy My Happy Hunting Grounds ix. 162 I hooked him on a small double hooked green fly.

1979 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 22 Aug. I was trolling my favorite combination, a chartreuse dodger and green fly, and it worked.

2001 D. Hughes Fishing Four Seasons iii. 109 Choose a generic green fly, count it down six to 10 feet deep on a wet-tip or wet-head line, and retrieve it slowly. You'll catch fish.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	greenfly
释义	greenflyn. Brit. /ˈɡriːnflʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈɡrinˌflaɪ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: green adj., fly n.¹ Etymology: < green adj. + fly n.¹ 1. Greenish aphids or plant lice collectively, many kinds of which are pests of cultivated plants. Also: an individual insect of this kind.In quot. 1741 probably some other kind of green insect. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis cantharidesa1398 blackfly1652 greenflya1680 green louse1682 green bug1704 collier1742 puceron1744 plant louse1763 aphis1771 leaf louse1774 smother-fly1785 tree-louse1797 ant cow1875 aphid1884 stilt-bug1895 a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1683) II. iii. 15 We are like those slight small green flies that creep upon leaves in Summer; we Men cannot touch them so gently but they dye. 1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May xv. 184 An Insect seldom, or never, misses attacking our green Cherries with so much Diligence and Fury, as to spoil great Numbers of them, by eating into their very Stone; and, because of this hollow Operation, we call them Ladlemen, or the Green Fly. 1849 Florist 35 Flowers in windows..are peculiarly liable..to be infested with green-fly (Aphis). 1897 Argosy Dec. 740 Miss Merton, there's a greenfly on your cheek. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiii. 246 A huge number of insects live as parasites on plants, such as..the green-flies or Aphides. 1987 K. Rushforth Tree Planting & Managem. (1990) vii. 118 A number of trees are hosts to various aphids, i.e. greenfly or blackfly. 1992 Canad. Gardening June 55/2 If greenflies plague your plants, consider using earwigs to fight the battle. 2001 Exotic & Greenhouse Gardening June 18/3 Greenfly can be a problem on new growth but an insecticide..should easily keep this under control. 2. Angling. Chiefly in form green fly. A kind of artificial fly. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of moor flylOE drake-flya1450 dub-flya1450 dun cut1496 dun fly1496 louper1496 red fly1616 moorish fly1635 palmer1653 palmer fly1653 red hackle1653 red palmer1653 shell-fly1653 orange fly1662 blackfly1669 dun1676 dun hackle1676 hackle1676 mayfly1676 peacock fly1676 thorn-tree fly1676 turkey-fly1676 violet-fly1676 whirling dun1676 badger fly1681 greenfly1686 moorish brown1689 prime dun1696 sandfly1700 grey midge1724 whirling blue1747 dun drake?1758 death drake1766 hackle fly1786 badger1787 blue1787 brown-fly1787 camel-brown1787 spinner1787 midge1799 night-fly1799 thorn-fly1799 turkey1799 withy-fly1799 grayling fly1811 sun fly1820 cock-a-bondy1835 brown moth1837 bunting-lark fly1837 governor1837 water-hen hackle1837 Waterloo fly1837 coachman1839 soldier palmer1839 blue jay1843 red tag1850 canary1855 white-tip1856 spider1857 bumble1859 doctor1860 ibis1863 Jock Scott1866 eagle1867 highlander1867 jay1867 John Scott1867 judge1867 parson1867 priest1867 snow-fly1867 Jack Scott1874 Alexandra1875 silver doctor1875 Alexandra fly1882 grackle1894 grizzly queen1894 heckle-fly1897 Zulu1898 thunder and lightning1910 streamer1919 Devon1924 peacock1950 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 182/1 The Shell-flye, Termed also the Green-fly, hath his body made of Greenish-wooll. 1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee viii, in Tales Fashionable Life VI. 97 The green-fly, and the moorish-fly! 1867 T. Burgess Angling xviii. 158 From the 1st April to 1st May, all shades of green flies answer well, with green hackles. 1914 A. E. Gathorne-Hardy My Happy Hunting Grounds ix. 162 I hooked him on a small double hooked green fly. 1979 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 22 Aug. I was trolling my favorite combination, a chartreuse dodger and green fly, and it worked. 2001 D. Hughes Fishing Four Seasons iii. 109 Choose a generic green fly, count it down six to 10 feet deep on a wet-tip or wet-head line, and retrieve it slowly. You'll catch fish. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1680
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