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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dipterous insect or fly of the family Syrphidæ, Eristalis tenax: so called from its resemblance to a drone bee.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) A dipterous insect (
Eristalis tenax ), resembling the drone bee. Seeeristalis .
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