bombylious

From Latin bombyx (“bumblebee”) + English -ious.

• IPA^(key): /bɒmˈbɪliəs/
• Hyphenation: bom‧byl‧i‧ous

bombylious (comparative more bombylious, superlative most bombylious)

1. (obsolete) Buzzing like a bumblebee.
   • 1713, W[illiam] Derham, “[A Survey of the Terraqueous Globe.] Of the Generation of Animals.”, in Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of Animals in General), footnote 10, page 249:

     [T]he VVhame or Burrel-fly, vvhich is vexatious to Horſes in Summer, not by ſtinging them, but only by their bombylious Noiſe, or tickling them in laying their Nits, or Eggs on the Hair; […]

• bombyx

• “bombylious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.