| 单词 | earth-louse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasearth-louse earth-louse n. now rare (usually in plural) any of various soil-dwelling insects, as root aphids and springtails.In quot. 1601: a burrowing scarabaeid beetle. [After post-classical Latin pedunculus terrae, alteration of classical Latin pēdiculus terrae; compare Old Icelandic jarðlús earwig.] ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 379 There is a kinde of earth-Beetles called Tauri, i. Buls: which name they tooke of the little hornes that they carie..; some tearme them, Pedunculos terræ, earth-lice. 1807 in Periodical Accts. Missions Church United Brethren (?1808) 4 326 We must add the annual increase of all kinds of grubs, and other devouring insects, earth-lice, moths, caterpillars, grey and green worms. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Earth-louse, 1. Any root-feeding aphidid... 2. Any one of many soil-inhabiting thysanurous insects. 1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xxviii. 364 The little dead earth-louse were of greater avail than thou, were it not nothing as thou art nothing. < as lemmas |
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