| 单词 | dung ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdung ball dung ball n. a ball of dung; spec. (a) a rounded mass of excrement passed by an animal as faeces; (b) a ball of dung rolled up by a dung beetle as food, esp. for its larvae. ΚΠ 1800 Sportsman's Dict. (new ed.) at Fevers The common symptoms of fever in the horse are extraordinary heat and dryness of the skin.., frequent casting out of dung-balls, [etc.]. 1810 D. Hopkins Vocab. Persian, Arabic, & Eng. 438/2 A beetle's dung ball. 1882 St. Louis Globe-Democrat 17 Apr. 9/3 The fleeces will be found..to contain dung-balls or burrs. 1917 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 252/2 These dung balls serve the scarab and its brood as food. 1937 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1936 88 600 In this [trench] was found a large pine log and dung balls which later proved to be those of..the Extinct Ground Sloth. 1990 M. Tyndale-Biscoe Common Dung Beetles Pastures South-eastern Austral. 2 The weight of a dung ball can be several times that of the beetle. 2005 Sci. News 168 418/3 Scientists estimate elephant populations by counting dung balls or conducting aerial surveys. < as lemmas |
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