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canker fly

noun

Definitions

  1. A fly that feeds on fruit.

    • Siebenkäs, in a voice of wrath, now turned bis seat of judgment into a penitent's stool for the Venner, abusing him as a canker-fly of female buds, a dove-hawk, a house-breaker of the treasures of marriage.
    • And I requite to you the years which the locust ate, the canker-fly, and the fledged locust, and the young locust, my great host which I sent among you.
    • That gnawing canker-fly, the printed book, sucks the life-blood out of the great stone pile.

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