Lexicographical Neighbors of Tipulas
Literary usage of Tipulas
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 (1832)
"... undergo true metamorphoses, analogous to those of several Diptera, such as
the tipulas. This order consists of a single genus, that of PULEX, Lin. ..."
2. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White (1898)
"On every sunny day the winter through, clouds of insects usually called gnats (I
suppose tipulas and ..."
3. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1808)
"... tipulas half-heartshaped, toothed. Catkins in separate buds. from the leaves,
on shortish leafy stalks. The male oneq yellow, with rounded hairy scales. ..."
4. The Saturday Magazine (1841)
"One of the most familiar specimens of the smaller tipulas may be observed in
great numbers on windows in the decline of summer. ..."
5. Nature Sketches in Temperate America: A Series of Sketches and Popular by Joseph Lane Hancock (1911)
"... known as tipulas, were found among the assemblage of those that sought to
become light-hypnotized. In fact, from the daintiest minute moths to the ..."
6. British birds in their haunts by Charles Alexander Johns (1862)
"... or grubs of tipulas (known by the common name of Father Long-legs), which are
in summer such voracious feeders on the roots of grass. ..."
7. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1846)
"... and a snow-bunting; and. lastly, some jackdaws, which were pursuing over the
glacier the butterflies, flies, and tipulas, carried thither by the wind. ..."
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