单词 | night-flyer |
释义 | night-flyern. A person who or animal (esp. a moth) which flies by night.In quot. 1722: a prisoner permitted to leave the prison at night. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > member of (moth) > that flies at night night-flyer1722 fly-by-night1894 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders (ed. 2) 346 I knew one Fellow, that while I was a Prisoner in Newgate, was one of those they called then Night-fliers,..who by Connivance was admitted to go Abroad every Evening. 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxi. 265 The infinite hosts of moths.., with few exceptions, are all night-fliers. 1893 Science 21 July 39/2 The owl and the night-jar..are the most common night fliers. 1939 Science 10 Mar. 225/1 What the night flyer needs..is the power to change his vision quickly from the illuminated cockpit and instrument panel to the outside world and back again. 1965 Science 8 Jan. 173/2 Many of these moths are night flyers and are therefore exposed to predation by insectivorous bats. 1978 S. King Stand xliii. 489 The light-standards were on in the purple gloaming, moths and night-fliers banging softly against them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1722 |
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