单词 | meat fly |
释义 | > as lemmasmeat fly meat fly n. a fly that breeds in meat, esp. a bluebottle or other blowfly, or a flesh fly; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Calliphoridae > calliphora or musca vomitoria (blue-bottle) blue fly1665 bluebottle1703 meat fly1822 1822 T. L. Beddoes Brides' Trag. iv. iii. 97 A friend! What is't?.. Hast a wife? They come; Buz, buz, lie, lie, the hungry meat-flies come. 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 633 Musca vomitoria, Linn., the Common Meat Fly. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iv. i. 237 The Blue or Meat Fly (Calliphora Vomitoria) is one of the largest species found in France. 1976 Zeitschr. f. Angewandte Entomologie 80 349 Meat flies, Sarcophaga cergyrostoma, were left for 24h for laying the first instar larvae on a fresh meat of white rate. 1990 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 7 Nov. 19 Tourists spill out to take a look, pushing through the taxi drivers, black marketeers and other meat flies who hang around. < as lemmas |
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