| 单词 | motuca fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmotuca fly A South American horsefly, Lepiselaga crassipes (family Tabanidae). Also motuca fly. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > miscellaneous types > hadrus lepidotus (motuca) motuca1863 1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. viii. 306 In the daytime the Motúca, a much larger and more formidable fly than the mosquito, insisted upon levying his tax of blood. 1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. viii. 306 The Motúca is of a bronzed-black colour; its proboscis is formed of a bundle of horny lancets... Its puncture does not produce much pain, but it makes such a large gash in the flesh that the blood trickles forth in little streams. 1914 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 630/1 Hornets dispute with motucas and other biting flies over the luckless intruder. 1927 W. M. McGovern Jungle Paths & Inca Ruins 224 Unlike the vampire bat, the motuka inflicted a very painful sting. 1933 P. Fleming Brazilian Adventure I. xvii. 145 There were also motuca flies, which looked like a lethal and slightly futuristic form of blue-bottle, and whose bites drew blood and oaths but had no worse effects. 1990 ‘L. de Bernières’ War Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts viii. 59 He was obstructed at every step by giant lianas that twisted high into the trees,..by swarms of stinging mutuca flies, by the cuts of paissava. < as lemmas |
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