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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TACHINA FLY

Via New Latin Tachina, from Greek takhinos swift, from takhos fleetness.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TACHINA FLY

tachina fly  [ˈtækɪnə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TACHINA FLY

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Tachina fly is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TACHINA FLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tachina fly

Tachinidae

The Tachinidae are a large and variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. Over 1300 species have been described in North America alone. Insects in this family commonly are called tachina flies or simply tachinids. As far as is known, they all are Protelean parasitoids, or occasionally parasites, of Arthropoda.

Definition of tachina fly in the English dictionary

The definition of tachina fly in the dictionary is any bristly fly of the dipterous family Tachinidae, the larvae of which live parasitically in caterpillars, beetles, hymenopterans, and other insects.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TACHINA FLY


ana
ˈeɪnə
Carolina
ˌkærəˈlaɪnə
china
ˈtʃaɪnə
container
kənˈteɪnə
Dana
ˈdeɪnə
designer
dɪˈzaɪnə
dinner
ˈdɪnə
Freightliner
ˈfreɪtˌlaɪnə
inner
ˈɪnə
Kitchener
ˈkɪtʃɪnə
liner
ˈlaɪnə
mina
ˈmaɪnə
minor
ˈmaɪnə
rana
ˈreɪnə
Regina
rɪˈdʒaɪnə
seiner
ˈseɪnə
skinner
ˈskɪnə
spinner
ˈspɪnə
trainer
ˈtreɪnə
winner
ˈwɪnə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TACHINA FLY

tach
tache
tacheometer
tacheometric
tacheometrical
tacheometrically
tacheometry
tachinid
tachisme
tachist
tachiste
tachistoscope
tachistoscopic
tachistoscopically
tachogram
tachograph
tachometer
tachometric
tachometrical
tachometrically

WORDS THAT END LIKE TACHINA FLY

bee fly
black fly
caddis fly
crane fly
dry fly
flesh fly
fruit fly
Hessian fly
hover fly
let fly
like a blue-arsed fly
make the fur fly
Mediterranean fruit fly
on the fly
robber fly
Spanish fly
stable fly
tsetse fly
tube fly
wet fly

Synonyms and antonyms of tachina fly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tachina fly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TACHINA FLY

Find out the translation of tachina fly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tachina fly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tachina fly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

tachina飞
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mosca tachina
570 millions of speakers

English

tachina fly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tachina मक्खी
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

ذبابة tachina
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Tachina муха
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Tachina fly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টাচিন মাছি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mouche tachina
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Terbang tachina
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Raupenfliege
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

tachinaフライ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tachina 플라이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tachina fly
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

tachina bay
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டச்சினை பறக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तचीना माशी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tachina fly
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tachina fly
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Tachina mucha
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Tachina муха
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tachina Fly
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

tachina μύγα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Tachina vlieg
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tachina fluga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tachina fly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tachina fly

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The term «tachina fly» is used very little and occupies the 180.667 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TACHINA FLY» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TACHINA FLY»

Discover the use of tachina fly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tachina fly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Sweetfish - tree snake
TACHINAFLY A tachina fly in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, feeding on fermented sap oozing from a tree. Sharing the meal are fruit beetles, Carpophilus hemipterus. In many tachina species the adults do not feed. A Nilgiri tahr, the largest of the ...
‎2002
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A Host-parasite Catalog of North American Tachinidae (Diptera)
1967 20(1): 18. and Yoshioka, [E.] 1966 A tachina fly (Trichopoda pennipes). ( U.S. Dept. Agr.) Coop. Econ. Insect Rpt. 16 (14): 286. Mitchener, A. V. (See Bird, R. D., and Mitchener) Miyahira, N. (See also Kim and Miyahira; Nakao and Miyahira ...
Paul Henri Arnaud, United States. Science and Education Administration, California Academy of Sciences, 1978
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Miscellaneous Publication
1967 20(1): 18. and Yoshioka, [E.] 1966 A tachina fly (Trichopoda pennipes). ( U.S. Dept. Agr.) Coop. Econ. Insect Rpt. 16 (14): 286. Mitchener, A. V. (See Bird, R. D., and Mitchener) Miyahira, N. (See also Kim and Miyahira; Nakao and Miyahira ...
‎1978
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The American Entomologist
THE CECROPIA TACHINA FLY.— The Ichneumon fly last mentioned usually causes a dwarfed appearance of the worm which it infests, and parasitized cocoons can generally be distinguished from healthy ones by their smaller size.
Benjamin Dann Walsh, Charles Valentine Riley, George Vasey, 1870
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The Principal Insect Enemies of Growing Wheat
One of these species, known as the red-tailed tachina fly (fig. 20), named after its host, Xemorcea leucania, may often be seen in hundreds buzzing about a field infested with the army worm, and sometimes as many as fifty of its eggs are ...
C. L. Marlatt, 1901
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Entomology Super Review, Insect Life and Behavior
... gypsy moth were imported into the United States with the hope that they may aid in controlling that pest in this country. The tachina-flies are among our most beneficial insects, their white. FIG. 377. A parasitic tachina-fly and its puparium FIG.
Dwight Sanderson Cicero Floyd Jackson
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Technical Bulletin
... while flying, and it is quite amusing to watch the frantic efforts which one of them, haunted by a Tachina-fly, will make to evade its enemy. The fly buzzes around, waiting her opportunity, and when the locust jumps or flies, darts at it and  ...
‎1931
8
Understanding Forest Biology
On tachina fly species alone was found to parasitize from 20% to 90% to the beetles. Import-ation of several of the parasitoids —and particularly the mass production and dissemination of spores of a Regulation "from above" Regulation "from ...
S.r. Mishra, 2009
9
Quince Culture
A small Ichneumon fly is a parasite on it; and the two- winged Tachina fly { Tachina phycitm, Le Baron), which closely resembles the common house fly, also preys on it. ATTACKING THE BUDS. 21. The Tarnished Plant-Bug (Lt/gceus lineola- ...
William Meech, 2009
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Popular Science
The only true parasite is a species of Tachina-fly (Lydella doryphorce, Riley), somewhat resembling a house-fly, which fastens its eggs to the doryphora larva. From these eggs hatch maggots, which feed upon the fatty portions of the said larva, ...

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