单词 | forest-fly |
释义 | > as lemmasforest-fly forest-fly n. a fly of the genus Hippobosca, esp. H. equina. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > group Pupipara or Nymphipara > family Hippoboscidae > member of family Hippobosca forest-fly1658 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 934 The greater..is the Forrest-fly. 1773 G. White Let. 8 July in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 156 A species of them [sc. Hippoboscæ] is familiar to horsemen in the south of England under the name of forest-fly. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 867/2 The forest-fly is..troublesome to horses in the summer. < as lemmas |
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