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kabouri Guyana.|kəˈbʊrɪ|
Also kaboura, kaburi.
[Origin unknown.]
A fly of the genus Simulium.
1899J. Rodway In Guiana Wilds xi. 161 The great pest was the kaburi, which raised a blister in every spot where its venomous proboscis was inserted. 1917W. G. White in C. W. Beebe et al. Trop. Wild Life Brit. Guiana I. xxxiv. 486 No one can know the district without knowing the kabouri fly... It is a blood-sucker, which marks one as with fine pocks... I am told that there are two species of kabourie; Simulium guianense, and Simulium amazonicum. 1954G. Durrell Three Singles to Adventure iv. 92 We were fiercely attacked by great numbers of tiny black flies a little larger than a pin-head but with a bite that was out of all proportion to their size... ‘They're kaboura flies...’ The kabouras continued their assault on us. |