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Definition of Hippobosca
1. Noun. Type genus of the Hippoboscidae.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Hippoboscidae, Hippoboscidae
Member holonyms: Hippobosca Equina, Horse Tick, Horsefly
Definition of Hippobosca
1. n. A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick.
Medical Definition of Hippobosca
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hippobosca
Literary usage of Hippobosca
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1835)
"hippobosca, Lin Subgenus. Example of Species. 59. ... Ornithomyia, \hippobosca
avicularia, 1. hippobosca, Cav.H. equina, Lin. I MI f Lin. 3. ..."
2. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1898)
"BY ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, FES hippobosca EQUINA, 1 and 2, nat. size and magnified
from life ; 3, pupa removed from egg-like puparium (after Reaumur); 4, ..."
3. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1903)
"Being convinced that the hippobosca can contain living ... I consider it to be
proved that the hippobosca is a medium of the propagation of the disease, ..."
4. Magazine of Natural History (1832)
"These could hardly have been the hippobosca ... which adhere to them in clusters (sec
p. 336.). hippobosca ..."
5. The Entomologist's Useful Compendium: Or, An Introduction to the Knowledge by George Samouelle (1819)
"hippobosca avicularia. Linni. Inhabits the black grouse and ... Ocelli none. Sp.
1. Mel. ovinus. Latr., Leach. hippobosca ovina. ..."
6. List of the Specimens of Dipterous Insects in the Collection of the British by Francis Walker (1849)
"6. Portugal. c. Var.? Madeira. e. Cape. Presented by the Earl of Derby. d. Egypt.
/. South Africa. From Mr. Pearson's collection. hippobosca camelina ..."
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