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单词 orange fly
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orange flyn.

Brit. /ˈɒrᵻn(d)ʒ ˌflʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈɔr(ə)ndʒ ˌflaɪ/, /ˈɑr(ə)ndʒ ˌflaɪ/
Forms: see orange n.1 and fly n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: orange n.1, fly n.1
Etymology: < orange n.1 + fly n.1
1. Angling. A fly with an orange body and black wings, used as bait; an artificial fly imitating this. Now rare.
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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.
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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).
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