Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any dipterous insect of the family Bombyliidæ; also, any other fly which frequents flowers.
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- noun the
hover-fly
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Examples
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Finlayson of Glasgow has recently reported an interesting case in a physician who, after protracted constipation and pain in the back and sides, passed large numbers of the larvæ of the flower-fly, anthomyia cani-cularis, and there are other instances of myiosis interna from swallowing the larvæ of the common house-fly.
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Finlayson of Glasgow has recently reported an interesting case in a physician who, after protracted constipation and pain in the back and sides, passed large numbers of the larvae of the flower-fly, anthomyia canicularis, and there are other instances of myiosis interna from swallowing the larvae of the common house-fly.
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Here is a pretty little yellow and black banded flower-fly, which is having a quiet little picnic all by himself on a bed of yarrow bloom close by.
My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873
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