| 单词 | cheese fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmascheese fly cheese fly n. a small black dipteran fly, Piophila casei, whose larvae (cheese-skippers) can infest cheese and cured meat and fish; also called bacon fly, ham fly; (formerly also) the larva of this. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Piophilidae > piophila casei cheese fly1817 cheese-hopper1830 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxii. 284 When about to leap, they do not, like the cheese-fly, erect themselves so as to form an angle with the plane of position. 1986 J. F. Gracey Meat Hygiene (ed. 8) xvi. 417/2 The cheese or ham fly, Piophila casei, lays clusters of eggs in salted or smoked foodstuffs such as hams, or in dried beef or cheese. 2012 Wall St. Jrnl. 28 Jan. s3/4 The larvae of the cheese fly (Piophila casei) are added to the [pecorina sardo] cheese. < as lemmas |
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