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单词 worm-eating
释义 I. ˈworm-ˌeating, vbl. n. Obs.
The eating of worms into fruit, timber, etc.
1594Plat Jewell-ho. i. 36 Steeping of seeds in the infusion of wormewood, centuary, coloquintida, and such like, will defende them from wormeating.1600Surflet Countrie Farme i. x. 48 Hee shall cleanse them [sc. trees] from wormes, filthines, and worme eatings.1677N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. iv. 15 To preserve these Stocks or Tops from rotting, or worm-eating, rub them over thrice a year with Sallet or Linseed-oyl.1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 40 To make good the damage she brought home by Worm-eating.
II. ˈworm-ˌeating, ppl. a.
That eats worms for food. worm-eating warbler, the bird Helminthotherus vermivorus of the eastern U.S.
1817Stephens in Shaw Gen. Zool. X. 730 Worm-eating Warbler. Sylvia vermivora... Inhabits Pensylvania.1831Swainson & Richardson Fauna Bor.-Amer. II. 204 The worm-eating Warblers (Vermivoræ).1872Coues Key N. Amer. Birds 93 Helmi[ntho]therus vermivorus. Worm-eating Warbler.
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