单词 | orange fly |
释义 | orange flyn. 1. Angling. A fly with an orange body and black wings, used as bait; an artificial fly imitating this. Now rare. 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 1662 R. Venables Experienc'd Angler ii. 19 All sorts of flies (where ever bred) do after a certain time come to the Rivers banks..and after a short time die, and are not to be found; though of some kinds there come a second sort afterwards, but much less, as the Orenge flie. 1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler viii. 77 We have then [in July] the Orange Flie, the dubbing of orange wool, and the wing of a black feather. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling ii. iii. 91 The Orange fly... Dubbed with orange coloured wool; the wings off the feather of a black bird's wing. 1836 A. Ronalds Fly-fisher's Entomol. iv. 104 Orange Fly... There are a great many varieties, some larger, some smaller than the representation... Although discovered alive with difficulty, it is found abundant in the stomachs of the fish. 1961 A. C. Williams Dict. Trout Flies (ed. 3) 271 Whatever its natural prototype, the Orange fly is an excellent grayling pattern. 2. A fruit fly whose larvae infest oranges. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > member of > unspecified > found in fruit trees fruit-fly1753 orange fly1903 1903 N.E.D. at Orange Orange-fly, a name of several small flies, whose larvæ burrow in the orange. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. 904/1 Orange-fly, any one of several trypetid flies whose larvæ feed on orange-fruit, as the Morelos orange-fly, Trypeta ludens. 1919 Bull. Imperial Central Agric. Exper. Station 2.85 (heading) Japanese orange-fly. 1992 I. M. White & M. M. Elson-Harris Fruit Flies Econ. Significance 260 (heading) Japanese orange-fly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1662 |
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