cucuycucuyon.

/kuːˈkuːi/

/kuːˈkuːjəʊ/

Forms: Also 1500s cucuio, 1800s cocuyo, ( cucullo); 1800s– cucujo.

Etymology: < Spanish cucuyo, adaptation of a Central American Indian name, perhaps on Haiti.

The West Indian firefly ( Pyrophorus noctilucus), an elaterid beetle which emits brilliant phosphorescent light from spots on the body.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Elateridae > elaterid fire-fly

fireworm1567

cucuy1605

salamander-fly1668

lightning bug1778

firebug1789

glow-fly1789

fire beetle1826

lightning beetle1854

meadow-fly1867

pyrophore1884

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 179 New-Spaynes Cucuio, in his forhead brings Two burning Lamps, two vnderneath his wings.

a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) i. iv. 97 These little Cucuyës..mingle their living lights with the obscuritie of this Dungeon.

1692 Coles's Eng. Dict. (new ed.) Cucuye, a bird in Hispaniola, with eyes under the wings, shining in the night.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Cucuyos, a king of Fly in America, which gives such a Lustre in the Night that one may..write and read by the Light of it.

18.. L. M. Child Fountain of Beauty The cucullo and the lantern-fly stood at her side.

1836 W. E. Shuckard tr. H. Burmeister Man. Entomol. iii. 491 Among the natives, all these insects are called Cucujos or Cucujii.

1842 H. D. Thoreau Excursions (1863) 60 Launch forth like a cucullo into the night.

1874 Science Record 485 The brilliant radiance of the cocuyo is emitted from its ventral region.

1952 E. N. Harvey Bioluminescence xiii. 461 Almost every traveler to the Caribbean region has mentioned luminous elaterids, which Spaniards call ‘cucujo’, and the French, ‘taupin’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	cucuy
释义	cucuycucuyon. /kuːˈkuːi//kuːˈkuːjəʊ/ Forms: Also 1500s cucuio, 1800s cocuyo, ( cucullo); 1800s– cucujo. Etymology: < Spanish cucuyo, adaptation of a Central American Indian name, perhaps on Haiti. The West Indian firefly ( Pyrophorus noctilucus), an elaterid beetle which emits brilliant phosphorescent light from spots on the body. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Elateridae > elaterid fire-fly fireworm1567 cucuy1605 salamander-fly1668 lightning bug1778 firebug1789 glow-fly1789 fire beetle1826 lightning beetle1854 meadow-fly1867 pyrophore1884 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 179 New-Spaynes Cucuio, in his forhead brings Two burning Lamps, two vnderneath his wings. a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) i. iv. 97 These little Cucuyës..mingle their living lights with the obscuritie of this Dungeon. 1692 Coles's Eng. Dict. (new ed.) Cucuye, a bird in Hispaniola, with eyes under the wings, shining in the night. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Cucuyos, a king of Fly in America, which gives such a Lustre in the Night that one may..write and read by the Light of it. 18.. L. M. Child Fountain of Beauty The cucullo and the lantern-fly stood at her side. 1836 W. E. Shuckard tr. H. Burmeister Man. Entomol. iii. 491 Among the natives, all these insects are called Cucujos or Cucujii. 1842 H. D. Thoreau Excursions (1863) 60 Launch forth like a cucullo into the night. 1874 Science Record 485 The brilliant radiance of the cocuyo is emitted from its ventral region. 1952 E. N. Harvey Bioluminescence xiii. 461 Almost every traveler to the Caribbean region has mentioned luminous elaterids, which Spaniards call ‘cucujo’, and the French, ‘taupin’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1605
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