Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cuckoo-fly or ichneumon. See
Ichneumonidæ .
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Examples
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There are five weak things that are a source of terror to the strong: -- The mosquito is a terror to the lion, the gnat is a terror to the elephant, the ichneumon-fly is a terror to the scorpion, the flycatcher is a terror to the eagle, and the stickleback is a terror to the leviathan.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
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What of the infinite goodness of God in teaching the grub of the ichneumon-fly to eat up the cabbage caterpillar alive?
God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897
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What of the infinite goodness of God in teaching the grub of the ichneumon-fly to eat up the cabbage caterpillar alive?
God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897
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The ichneumon-fly lays its eggs under the skin of the caterpillar.
God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897
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What of the infinite goodness of God in teaching the grub of the ichneumon-fly to eat up the cabbage caterpillar alive?
God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897
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The ichneumon-fly lays its eggs under the skin of the caterpillar.
God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897
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The ichneumon-fly lays its eggs under the skin of the caterpillar.
God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897
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When I see the large ichneumon-fly, Thalessa, making a loop over her back with her long ovipositor and drilling a hole in the trunk of a tree, I do not fully appreciate the spectacle till I know she is feeling for the burrow of a tree-borer, Tremex, upon the larvae of which her own young feed.
Time and Change John Burroughs 1879
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After a few days we saw, from more than three fourths of them, about eight or ten little caterpillars of the ichneumon-fly come out of their backs, and spin each a small cocoon of silk, and in a few days the large caterpillars died.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The young caterpillars of the gadfly placed in the skins of cows, and the young of the ichneumon-fly placed in the backs of the caterpillars on cabbages, seem to produce their nourishment by their irritating the sides of their nidus.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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