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flying buttress
flying buttress see buttress .
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bee fly
bee fly name for the small- to medium-sized flies of the family Bombyliidae, many of which resemble bees in appearance and behavior. This mimicry provides bee flies with some measure of protection against predators that have learned to avoid the sting of true bees. A bee fly has a stout, hairy ...
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crane fly
crane fly true fly resembling a mosquito, often called daddy longlegs because of its six long, delicate legs. (The harvestman , also called daddy longlegs, belongs to an unrelated order.) Most species of crane flies have a single pair of wings and slender bodies. They feed upon plant substances ...
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Santa Monica
Santa Monica , city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. The RAND Corp., the noted think-tank, has its headquarters there. Santa Monica has a 3-mi (...
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gadfly
gadfly name for various biting flies, especially those that attack livestock, e.g., the botfly and the horsefly .
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daddy longlegs
daddy longlegs name applied to the harvestman , an arachnid, and to the crane fly , an insect.
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tsetse fly
tsetse fly , name for any of several bloodsucking African flies of the genus Glossina, and in the same family as the housefly . The larva of the tsetse fly develops inside the body of the mother until it is ready to pupate in the soil. A number of the 21 species can transmit to humans the trypa...
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fly
fly name commonly used for any of a variety of winged insects , but properly restricted to members of the order Diptera, the true flies, which includes the housefly , gnat , midge , mosquito , and tsetse fly . All have sucking or piercing-and-sucking mouthparts and, except for a few wingless ...
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fly
fly name commonly used for any of a variety of winged insects , but properly restricted to members of the order Diptera, the true flies, which includes the housefly , gnat , midge , mosquito , and tsetse fly . All have sucking or piercing-and-sucking mouthparts and, except for a few wingless ...
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fruit fly
fruit fly common name for any of the flies of the families Tephritidae and Drosophilidae. All fruit flies are very small insects that lay their eggs in various plant tissues. The Tephritidae contains about 1,200 species characterized by wide heads, black or steely green or blue bodies, iridesce...
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