| 单词 | yellow-bottle fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow-bottle fly 2. More fully yellow-bottle fly. (a) †any of several yellowish blowflies native to Australia, esp. Calliphora stygia and C. hilli (obsolete); (b) the tumbu fly, a yellowish blowfly native to Africa, Cordylobia anthropophaga (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Calliphoridae > member of flesh-fly1388 butcher fly1633 blowfly1729 yellow-bottle1855 bush-fly1934 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Cordiluridae > cordylobia anthropophaga (tumbu fly) yellow-bottle1855 tumbu fly1898 mango fly1910 1855 W. Howitt Land, Labour & Gold I. vii. 121 These yellow-bottles,—for blue-bottles they are not,—deposit live maggots on meat immediately it is killed. 1860 F. Vidal Bengala x. 123 Mr. Jolly himself occasionally waved a branch of gumtree to keep off the large yellow bottle flies which swarmed around. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Korrumburra, aboriginal name for the common blow-fly, which in Australia is a yellow-bottle, not a blue-bottle. 1965 J. H. Grundy in O. G. Edholm & A. L. Bacharach Explor. Med. xiv. 361 The tropical African ‘yellow-bottle’ known as the ‘tumbu fly’. 1993 N. R. H. Burgess & G. O. Cowan Med. Entomol. vii. 57 (in figure) Yellow bottle flies... Auchmeromyia luteola (Congo floor maggot fly)... Cordylobia anthropophaga (tumbu fly). < as lemmas |
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