| 单词 | drone fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdrone fly drone fly n. any of several hoverflies of the genus Eristalis, which resemble drone honeybees.The aquatic larva of the drone fly is the rat-tailed maggot. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Syrphidae > member of > resembling bee or eristalis tenax drone fly1665 bee-fly1852 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 175 I took a large grey Drone-Fly, that had a large head, but a small and slender body in proportion to it. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Drone-fly, or Bee fly, a two wing'd fly, so extremely like the common bee as to be at first sight not easily distinguishable from it. a1921 A. T. de Mattos tr. J.-H. Fabre in E. W. Teale Insect World of J. Henri Fabre (1991) xiii. 121 I provide two Eristales, or Drone-flies, and four House-flies. 2005 W. H. Robinson Handbk. Urban Insects & Arachnids vii. 188/1 The drone fly, Eristalis tenax, resembles a honey bee in appearance and sound. < as lemmas |
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