| 单词 | deer-fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeer-fly deer-fly n. any one of various flies which infest deer; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > member of > unspecified > parasite > that infests deer deer-fly1853 1853 J. Benwell Trav. 127 Dusky-looking deer-flies constantly alighted on our faces and hands. 1903 S. E. White Forest ix. 105 The question of flies..in its wide embracement of mosquitoes, sand-flies, deer flies, black-flies and midges. 1937 E. Francis in Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 52 1 This name [sc. tularaemia] was given to the disease by the writer in 1920 after establishing the identity of..‘deer-fly fever’ in man. 1950 A. P. Herbert Independent Member 276 The discomforts and dangers we should have to face ashore in Labrador—including black-fly, mosquitoes, deer-fly and dogs. < as lemmas |
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