单词 | horn fly |
释义 | horn fly in American English US a muscid fly (Haematobia irritans) that is a pest on cattle and sucks blood, esp. at the base of the horns horn fly in American Englishnoun a small bloodsucking fly, Haematobia irritans, that is a pest, esp. of cattle Word origin [1700–10, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1700–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: camera, cirrus, emphatic, envelope, sliding scale |
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