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Significats de fly-catching en anglès

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Feeding strategy in birds involving catching flying insects in the air.

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Ús de fly-catching en anglès
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The flashing alertness of a fly-catching lizard, is it not proverbial?
My Tropic Isle
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I was also sick of its fly-catching abilities and the cloying scent of watermelon.
The Guardian
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Then Bunch, grave as a judge, began to repeat: 'Plate-snatching, gravy-spilling, door-slamming, blue-bottle- fly-catching, and curtsey-bobbing.
The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 2
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The kitchen was alive with flies, at least half of them still struggling on the long sticky fly-catching paper that hung around the room.
The Irish Times
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I found a singular moth- and fly-catching, plant in this range; it exudes a gummy substance, by which insects become attached to the leaves.
Australia Twice Traversed / The Romance of Exploration, Being a ...
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Then he went, but returned and said: "There's no water in the bucket-Motherused the last drop to boil th' punkins," and renewed the fly-catching.
On Our Selection
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"They've landed below here, and maybe they're in town while we've got our mouths open, fly-catching around an empty car."
Blindfolded
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"I am tired of scrabbling in the dust, and fly-catching is an amusement only suited to sparrows and such vulgar birds."
Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men
Fly-catching a través del temps