the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > member of genus Tabanus (gadfly or horse-fly) > large or ferocious (2)
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In early glosses and vocabularies (continental as well as English: see Verwijs and Verdam, Middelndl. Wbk.), there is some confusion between the…