| 单词 | butcher fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutcher fly butcher fly n. (a) (also butcher's fly) a fly that feeds on meat or flesh; a blowfly (now historical); (b) a kind of artificial fly used by anglers (cf. sense 4). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Calliphoridae > member of flesh-fly1388 butcher fly1633 blowfly1729 yellow-bottle1855 bush-fly1934 1633 T. James Strange Voy. 81 Butterflyes, Butchers-flyes, Horseflyes. 1821 New Monthly Mag. 1 568 The butcher-fly fastens by instinct..upon those parts only that are defective and disgusting. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling xi. 368 The Butcher Fly..is not the fly known elsewhere as ‘the butcher’. 1899 Glasgow Herald 4 Sept. 12/3 Mr A. C. M'Dougall..commenced fishing about Cavilstone strip..creeling eight trout with the red and teal and butcher flies within two hours. 1937 Aberdeen Jrnl. 12 July 4/5 Since first observing the trout four years ago Mr Abel has made repeated attempts to capture it. He has finally done so using a small Butcher fly. < as lemmas |
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