单词 | burrel-fly |
释义 | burrel-flyn. The gadfly. 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) breezea800 stoutc1000 horsefly1382 gad-bee1510 gadfly1569 brimse1579 wag-leg1585 breeze-fly1587 breame1589 beast-fly1658 burrel-fly1658 whame1658 gad-breeze1665 bree1678 garabee1692 gad1830 thunderbug1837 ox-warble1840 March fly1852 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 937 This Fly [Curvicauda] the English in their proper tongue call a Whame and a Burrell-fly. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) (App.) Burrel-fly, the same as Gad-fly. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. xiv. 249 The Whame, or Burrel-Fly,..is vexatious to Horses in Summer. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Burrel-fly, an Insect very troublesome to working Cattle. Hence in Johnson and mod. Dicts. 1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 177 Oestrus Bovis, Whame or Burrel Fly. 1951 C. N. Colyer & C. O. Hammond Flies Brit. Isles vi. 102 Various names have been bestowed upon Tabanidae, including burrel-flies, gad flies..horse flies [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1658 |
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