| 单词 | flying-squid |
| 释义 | > as lemmasflying-squid 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < as lemmas |
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