| 单词 | shoo fly |
| 释义 | shoo fly (once / 422119 pages) n WORD FAMILY shoo fly: shoo flies USAGE EXAMPLESElephants are also adept toolmakers, fashioning switches with which to shoo flies and chewing bark into balls to plug small drinking holes, thereby preventing evaporation. Scientific American(Mar 06, 2014) They fashioned twigs into switches to shoo flies and plugged drinking holes with chewed up balls of bark. Scientific American(Feb 26, 2014) “Heave a link!” shouts the officer, and Shoo Fly and the donkey engine heaveth. Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, West African studies(2012) n coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry Syn|Hyper Nicandra physaloides, apple of Peru herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests |
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