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Tabanid. World English Historical Dictionary

Tabanid. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Tabanid a. and sb. [f. L. tabānus a gad-fly or horse-fly (adopted by Linnæus as a generic name) + -ID3.] a. adj. Belonging to the family Tabanidæ of flies, of which Tabanus is the typical genus. b. sb. A fly of this family, a gad-fly.

1 1891.  in Cent. Dict.

2 1895.  Bulletin Illinois Labor. Nat. Hist., 197. As restless as a tabanid larva. Ibid., 199. It was, perhaps, this that the tabanids were feeding upon.

3   So Tabaniform a., having the form of a gad-fly (Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1860).

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