| 单词 | cocktail beetle |
| 释义 | > as lemmascocktail beetle 2. More fully cocktail beetle. Any of various rove beetles which habitually raise the hind end and open the jaws in a threatening manner when alarmed, esp. the devil's coach-horse Ocypus olens; = cocktailed beetle n. at cocktailed adj.1 Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Staphylinoidea > family Staphylinidae > member of (rove-beetle) > goerius olens (cocktail, devil's coach-horse) devil's coach-horse?1800 cocktail1829 cocktailed beetle1861 1829 J. F. Stephens Systematic Catal. Brit. Insects i. 256 Rove-beetles, Cock-tails. 1862 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) II. 375 A not very common species of cocktail beetle, the Staphylinus erythropterus is a very favourite prey of this bird. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Coffin-cutter, Ocypus olens, the cock-tail, an insect larger than an earwig, of a black colour. Called also the Devil's Coachman. 1913 H. G. Stanley Insect Life 94 If one cocktail is placed in the path of another a fight will often ensue, and it is generally ‘to the death’. 1973 Guardian 14 Dec. 14/2 Many small cocktail beetles, spiders and certain wingless flies..flourish in the local swamps in the depth of winter. 2010 Kentish Express (Nexis) 30 Sept. Another name for the beetle is the cocktail beetle, not after a drink, but due to the posture of its tail when alarmed! < as lemmas |
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