| 单词 | turnip-fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasturnip-fly turnip-fly n. (a) = turnip-flea n.; (b) the turnip-sawfly, a hymenopterous insect, Athalia centifoliæ, the larva of which (turnip-nigger n.) feeds on turnip-leaves; (c) a dipterous insect, Anthomyia radicum, whose larva lives in the root of the turnip. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Muscidae > anthomyia radicum turnip-fly1733 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Symphta or Phytophaga Sessiliventres > family Tenthredinidae > athalia centifolia (turnip-sawfly) turnip-fly1733 turnip-saw-fly1844 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Chrysomelidae > member of genus Haltica (turnip-flea) turnip-fly1733 flea1805 turnip-beetle1816 flea-beetle1842 turnip-flea1842 hop-flea1880 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxiv. 187 By the shallow or deep [seed sown], the Turnep-Fly is generally disappointed. 1765 J. W. Baker in Museum Rusticum V. 277 I discovered last season three distinct species of the turnip fly..one of them is black; it seems to hop like a flea. 1771 G. White Let. 30 Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 90 The country people here call it the turnip-fly and black-dolphin; but I know it to be one of the coleoptera; the chrysomela oleracea. 1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. v. 190 The turnip fly..fixes itself upon the seed-leaves of the turnip at the time that they are beginning to perform their functions. 1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 498 One of the best-known species [of Tetramera] is the so-called Turnip-fly (Haltica nemorum). < as lemmas |
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