| 单词 | toddy fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmastoddy fly toddy fly n. †(a) the Hercules beetle, Dynastes hercules (obsolete); (b) a widespread blowfly, Chrysomya megacephala (family Calliphoridae), which is attracted to carrion and fermenting plant matter (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > member of > unspecified path-fly1634 toddy fly1681 dog-bee1838 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. vii. §2. 162 The Toddy-Fly..hath but two Horns... Thirty or forty of these together, rasping or sawing off part of the Barque of theToddy-Tree by the help of their Snout-Horn, will drink themselves drunk with the liquor that flows from it. 1797 J. C. Fabricius Epitome Entomologiae 10/1 (list) Hanneton terrestre. Hercule, Beetle Hercules, Toddi Fly. 1908 Jrnl. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 11 20/2 The natives are subject to a form of cystitis due to drinking ‘toddy’ (the sap of the cocoanut tree) which has been infected by a yellow fly called the toddy fly. 1938 K.R. Venkatarama Ayyar Man. Pudukkóttai State (ed. 2) I. ii. 54 The common Cattle-fly Hippobosca maculala found on cattle, Oestrus ovis on sheep, the Toddy-fly (Pycnosoma flaviceps), the House-fly (Musca nebulo), [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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