单词 | honey-fly |
释义 | > as lemmashoney-fly honey-fly n. (originally) the honeybee, Apis mellifera; (in later use also) any of several other insects which feed on nectar. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Apidae (honey-bee) beec1000 honeybeec1400 honey-fly?1483 honey people1605 hive-bee1816 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > making honey > bee that makes honeybeec1400 honey-fly?1483 ?1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton i. sig. diiv The poure man had in hys gardyn many hony flees or bees. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vii. 251 Prince and People rise, And runne to Schoole among the Hunnie-Flies. a1700 in F. T. Palgrave Golden Treas. (1863) 73 The care-burthen'd honey-fly. 1840 Church Scholar's Reading-bk. 183/1 The Common Bee, or Honey-Fly, is an insect of the species of the fly with four wings. 1905 E. Step Wayside & Woodland Blossoms (new ed.) II. 76 The style lies so close upon the sepal that bees cannot get in; but the long-tongued Honey-fly (Rhingia rostrata) can, and does. 1973 J. Weightman & D. Weightman tr. C. Lévi-Strauss From Honey to Ashes 294 The latter's body has changed into rottenness, which is giving off flies (‘meat flies’, not ‘honey flies’). 2003 Consumers Res. Mag. Sept. 37/2 Cluster flies are also called buckwheat flies or honey flies. You crush them and they give off a buckwheat-honey scent. < as lemmas |
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