单词 | zimb |
释义 | zimbn. A dipterous insect of Ethiopia, allied to and resembling the tsetse, and very destructive to cattle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Muscidae > glossina morsitans (tsetse-fly) > insect allied to zimb1790 1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile I. 388 Large swarms of flies appeared wherever that loomy earth was... This insect is called Zimb... It is in size very little larger than a bee. a1827 Good Ps. cv. 31 (1854) 415 He spake, and the zimb-fly came. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1790 |
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