| 单词 | cocktailed beetle |
| 释义 | > as lemmascocktailed beetle cocktailed beetle n. now rare 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; = cocktail n. 2. 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 1861 J. G. Wood Common Objects Microscope vi. 122 Figs. 3 and 5 are from two minute species of Cock-tailed Beetles (Staphylinidæ). 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. iv. 48 Like a ‘devil's coach-horse’. [Note] The cock-tailed beetle has earned this name. 1974 J. E. Barlough Archaicon 77 Devil's Coach-horse, a popular name for the large rove-beetle (Goerius olens)..; often, any cock-tailed beetle. < as lemmas |
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