| 单词 | bulldog fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbulldog fly a. A kind of gad-fly (American). In full bulldog fly. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > member of genus Tabanus (gadfly or horse-fly) > unspecified type dun fly1610 side-fly1634 bulldog1792 1792 P. Turnor Jrnl. in Jrnls. S. Hearne & P. Turnor (1934) 488 A kind of fly..called bull dogs. 1836 R. King Narr. Journ. Arctic Ocean I. 82 Horse-flies (significantly called ‘bull-dogs’). 1848 R. M. Ballantyne Hudson's Bay (ed. 2) vii. 147 The whole room was filled with mosquitoes and bull-dog flies. 1865 Visct. Milton & W. B. Cheadle N.-W. Passage by Land 219 The ‘bull-dog’ or tabanus, is a large fly..with a long body, banded with yellow..and its mouth is armed with a formidable cutting apparatus of four lancets. 1883 St. James's Gaz. 19 Apr. ‘Bull~dogs’ (a large horse-fly) render existence almost unendurable. 1895 H. S. Somerset Land of Muskeg 63 The mosquitoes and bull-dog flies. < as lemmas |
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