| 单词 | rose fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrose fly rose fly n. †(a) = rose chafer n. 1 (obsolete); (b) any of various small flying insects that frequent roses (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > member of subfamily Cetoniinae or genus Cetonia > cetonia aurata (rose-chafer) dora1450 rose fly1680 rose chafer1704 rose-bug1706 rose beetle?1735 goldsmith1799 goldsmith beetle1841 1680 in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1757) IV. 10 The green beetle, which we call a rose-fly. 1725 P. Shaw Philos. Wks. R. Boyle II. 546 We took one of those shining beetles called rose-flies. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Rose-fly,..a peculiar species of fly found very frequently on rose bushes. 1864 J. G. Wood Our Garden Friends & Foes xix. 297 We have only to watch by the side of the rose-trees, and look for the Rose-fly (Hylotoma rosæ). 1918 A. Dale When Man Commutes 191 I thought at one time that it was easy to spray roses..for the treatment of the horrid ‘rose fly’. < as lemmas |
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