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flying-marmot
b. In names of insects, as flying-buck-beetle, flying-glow-worm. Also of fish, reptiles, quadrupeds, etc., which by means of special appendages are able to make movements resembling flight; as flying-frog, flying-gecko, flying-gurnard, flying-herring, flying-lemur, flying-lizard, flying-marmot, flying-phalanger, flying-squid. Also flying adder n. British regional a dragonfly. flying coachman n. the regent honey-eater, Zanthomiza phrygia. flying-dog n. a kind of vampire-bat. flying hart n., flying stag = French cerf-volant, a stag-beetle. flying mouse n. the smallest gliding marsupial, Acrobates pygmæus, of the family Phalangeridæ. Also flying fish n., flying fox n., flying squirrel n.
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the world > animals > by locomotion > [adjective] > flying
flying1626
volitant1891
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Lucanidae (stag-beetles) > member of genus Lucanus (stag-beetle)
bull-fly1585
hornet1585
stag-fly1634
hartshorn beetle1658
flying hart1676
stag-beetle1681
flying stag1765
pinching bug1850
pinch bug1856
the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [noun] > suborder Microchiroptera > family Desmodontidae (vampire bat)
vampire1774
spectre-bat1781
vampire bat1790
flying-dog1796
javelin-bat1861
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Meliphagidae (honey-eater) > genus Xanthomiza (regent honeyeater)
mock regent bird1848
regent honeyeater1913
flying coachman1918
the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Phalangeridae (phalanger) > genus Acrobates (flying mouse)
opossum mouse1832
flying mouse1934
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §712 Lucciole..may be the Flying~Glo-worm.
1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 652 A Kind of large flying Beetle,..with a huge pair of horns..Our people in Virginia..calling it a Flying Hart.
1694 J. Clayton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 126 Another little green Frog, that will leap prodigiously, which they therefore call the Flying Frog.
1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 350 Another strange one, which they call Ololo, and comes next to our Corvus [read Cervus] volans, or Flying Buckbeetle.
1765 H. Timberlake Mem. 46 Of insects, the flying stag is almost the only one worthy of notice.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxii. 142 The vampire..of Guiana..is also called the flying-dog of New Spain.
1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. I. 269 The flying-squid rose from the sea in large flocks.
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 199 The flying lizard (Draco volans).
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 352 The other (Exocœtus) has been called Flying Herring.
1883 W. H. Flower in Encycl. Brit. XV. 401 Galeopithecus volans..The Flying Lemur of Linnæus.
1884 Longman's Mag. Mar. 523 Flying gurnards.
1918 J. A. Leach Austral. Bird Bk. (ed. 4) 170 Regent Honey-eater (Warty-faced), [or] Turkey-Bird (Mock Regent), [or] Flying Coachman..one of the most beautiful of birds.
1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 16 May 20/4 The..flying-mouse is common in the wide belt of scrub which stretches across S.A. and Western Vic.
1945 Folk-lore 56 312 In South Pembrokeshire ‘the big ones’ are called ‘Flying Adders’.
1982 E. V. Sale Four Seasons County Diary 91 They are probably what..others name more colourfully Devil's Darning Needles, or Horse Stingers (or, in Scotland, Flying Adders).
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