单词 | koochahbee |
释义 | koochahbeen. The larva of a fly, Ephydra californica, found in enormous quantities in Lake Mono in California. When dried in the sun and the shell rubbed off these worms form a very important article of food among the Indians. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Ephydridae > member of > larva of ephydra californica koochahbee1884 1884 Brewer in J. S. Kingsley Standard Nat. Hist. II. 432 My guide, an old hunter there, told me that everything fattens in the season of the koo-chah-bee; that ducks get very fat. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1884 |
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