horseflyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• horse-fly
• horse fly

語源

From 中期英語 horse fliȝe, equivalent to horse +‎ fly.

発音

• ハイフネーション: horse‧fly

名詞

horsefly (plural horseflies)

1. Any of several medium to large flies, of the family Tabanidae, that suck the blood of mammals (not to be confused with Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable fly, or dog fly).
   • 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 36:

     It was not a horsefly and it was not a deerfly; it was bigger than either.

同意語

• (fly of family Tabanidae): cleg (dialectal), breezefly, gadfly, stoat-fly, stout

下位語

• (individual species or subgroups of the family Tabanidae): deer fly, yellow fly, March fly (Australia), zimb

アナグラム

• floryshe, shore fly