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Definition of Greenflies
1. greenfly [n] - See also: greenfly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenflies
Literary usage of Greenflies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Female Life Among the Mormons: A Narrative of Many Years' Personal Experience by Maria Ward, Benjamin G. Ferris (1855)
"Sometimes the prairie bottoms afforded us a very fair road ; but the long grass
actually teemed with myriads of mosquitoes and large greenflies from which ..."
2. Darwinism and Human Life: The South African Lectures for 1909 by John Arthur Thomson (1911)
"... for potatoes, which are multiplied by cutting; for the drone-bees and summer
greenflies, which have mothers but no fathers; and for the simple, ..."
3. An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects by William Kirby, William Spence (1818)
"Flag-worms, greenflies, Ant-flies, Butterflies, Wasps, Hornets, Bees, Humble-bees,
Grasshoppers, Dors, It'etles, ft great brown fly that ..."
4. The Wheat Plant: Its Origin, Culture, Growth, Development, Composition by John Hancock Klippart (1860)
"Dr. Fitch describes several species parasitic on the greenflies, which feed on
several of our fruit trees, etc. All have a general resemblance, ..."
5. Spraying Crops: Why, When, and how by Clarence Moores Weed (1903)
"There are many different species of APHIDES, PLANT-LICE, or "greenflies," affecting
various flowering-plants. But all are quite similar in life-history and ..."
6. Narrative of a Visit to the Courts of Russia and Sweden: In the Years 1830 by Charles Colville Frankland (1832)
"... breaking out of the malady, as stinking, with a thick Jog or exhalation arising
out of the earth, and the atmosphere as swarming with small greenflies. ..."
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