| 单词 |
smother-fly |
| 释义 |
ˈsmother-fly dial. [f. smother v.] A species of aphis.
1781G. White Selborne xcvii, The people..were surprised by a shower of aphides, or smother-flies, which fell in these parts. 1796W. H. Marshall Rur. Econ. Midl. (ed. 2) II. 386 The very ‘Black bug’ ‘Negro’—here provincially ‘Smother fly’—with which beans are frequently infested. 1851B'ham & Midl. Gardeners' Mag. Dec. 239 The Plum stocks in particular being infested with smother-fly. |

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