Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Hippoboscidœ. H. equina is a winged tick-fly of the horse: also
forest-fly .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Hippoboscidae
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Examples
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One fly deposits hundreds of eggs, and another, like the hippobosca, a single one; but this difference does not determine how many individuals of the two species can be supported in a district.
III. Struggle for Existence. Geometrical Ratio of Increase 1909
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One fly deposits hundreds of eggs, and another, like the hippobosca, a single one; but this difference does not determine how many individuals of the two species can be supported in a district.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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One fly deposits hundreds of eggs, and another, like the hippobosca, a single one; but this difference does not determine how many individuals of the two species can be supported in a district.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 03 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859
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One fly deposits hundreds of eggs, and another, like the hippobosca, a single one; but this difference does not determine how many individuals of the two species can be supported in a district.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) Charles Darwin 1845
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One fly deposits hundreds of eggs, and another, like the hippobosca, a single one; but this difference does not determine how many individuals of the two species can be supported in a district.
On the origin of species Charles Darwin 1845
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The condor lays a couple of eggs and the ostrich a score, and yet in the same country the condor may be the more numerous of the two: the Fulmar petrel lays but one egg, yet it is believed to be the most numerous bird in the world, One fly deposits hundreds of eggs, and another, like the hippobosca, a single one; but this difference does not determine how many individuals of the two species can be supported in a district.
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Page 385 of several species, and their numbers incredible; we travelled almost from sun-rise to his setting, amidst a flying host of these persecuting spirits, who formed a vast cloud around our caravan so thick as to obscure every distant object; but our van always bore the brunt of the conflict; the head, neck and shoulders of the leading horses were continually in a gore of blood: some of these flies were near as large as humble bees; this is the hippobosca.
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