单词 | clock beetle |
释义 | > as lemmasclock beetle Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). More fully clock beetle. A beetle; esp. a dor beetle, or a cockroach.black clock, bum-clock, lady-clock, water clock, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > member of (beetle) beetlea800 buddea1200 scarbot14.. escharbon1480 clock1568 black-bob1742 hardback1750 coleopter1860 Coleoptera1875 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > member of (dung-beetle) sharnbudc1000 dora1450 clock1568 sharn-bug1608 dung beetle1634 grey fly1638 dunghill beetle1658 comb-chafer1712 tumble-turd1754 tumble-dung1775 dung-chafer1805 tumble-bug1805 tumbler1807 bull-comber1813 straddle-bug1839 lamellicorn1842 scarabaeidan1842 shard-beetle1854 watchman1864 scarabaeoid1887 scarabaeid1891 minotaur1918 1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 262 Scho bad ga chat him Scho compt him nt twa clokkis. 1608 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Ivdith ii. 31 in J. Sylvester Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) Dimd the Ayre, with..flyes, grashoppers, hornets, clegs and clocks. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Clock-beetle..,a beetle that flies about in an evening in a circular direction with a loud noise; the Scarabæus stercorarius of Linnæus. 1874 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 11 June 464/2 Some of those beetles or ‘clocks’ fond of hiding themselves are useful to us. 1979 P. Whalley in Insects 220/2 Dor beetles (Geotrupidae) are also known as clock beetles. 2003 J. Kelly Sophisticated Boom Boom 87 I was often found playing with clock beetles under the kitchen table and listening to Louis Armstrong on the radio. < as lemmas |
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