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单词 Isle of Wight
释义 Isle of Wight|aɪl əv ˈwaɪt|
The name of an island off the coast of Hampshire, used attrib. to designate a disease of bees first found there in 1904, caused by the parasitic mite Acarapis woodsi; also called acarine disease.
[1907A. D. Imms in Jrnl. Board Agric. XIV. 129 (title) Report on a disease of bees in the Isle of Wight.]1909W. Malden in Jrnl. Board Agric. XV. 815 In commencing my observations on the Isle of Wight disease, I first endeavoured to ascertain whether, by careful dissections, any characteristic lesions could be discovered in the internal anatomy of the diseased bees.1932E. B. Wedmore Man. Beekeeping xvii. 401 In 1920 Miss E. J. Harvey observed a mite in the tracheæ of bees suffering from ‘Isle of Wight’ disease.1965M. Hoyt World of Bees x. 171 Acarapis is sometimes called Isle of Wight disease.
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