| 释义 |
whame Obs. or dial.
A gadfly.
1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 937 This Fly [Curvicauda] the English in their proper tongue call a Whame and a Burrell-fly. 1775Romans Florida App. 51 note, Tabona [sic] is Spanish for a whame or horsefly. 1829Glover's Hist. Derby I. 177 Oestrus Bovis, Whame or Burrel Fly. 1881Blackmore Christowell ii, He mistook a large stone⁓fly..for a genuine oestrus, a bot-fly, whame, or tabanus. |