单词 | humpbacked fly |
释义 | > as lemmashumpbacked fly humpbacked fly n. any of various flies with an arched thorax, which gives them a humpbacked appearance; spec. (a) any of various small biting black flies, chiefly of the genus Simulium; (b) a scuttle fly (family Phoridae). ΚΠ 1918 Sci. Monthly Mar. 202 Many districts are visited by swarms of small hump-backed flies which viciously bite man and animals alike. 1933 Amer. Midland Naturalist 14 609 The accumulations of left-overs..furnish food for hundreds of larvae of a small hump-backed fly, Megaselia cavernicola Brues, probably the Phora rufipes Meigan of the older writers. 1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. xx. 622 Humpbacked flies are common around decaying organic matter—and are sometimes found in the nests of ants, termites, and bees. 2001 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 30 Aug. 2 Black flies can be any one of a number of species of small humpbacked flies, which are typically dark in colour with broad, transparent wings. < as lemmas |
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