单词 | field bug |
释义 | > as lemmasfield bug field bug n. now rare any heteropteran bug living in open country (and hence distinguished from the bedbug); esp. any member of the large superfamily Pentatomoidea, which includes shield bugs and burrowing bugs. ΚΠ 1787 G. Adams Ess. Microscope 693 The elytra of the cimeces, or field bugs, which are a very numerous tribe, afford a great variety of objects. 1800 E. Donovan Nat. Hist. Brit. Insects IX. 21 Cimex bicolor. Black and White Field Bug. 1840 J. Loudon & M. Loudon tr. V. Köllar Treat. Insects ii. 148 The painted field-bug..becomes a dangerous enemy to the different plants of the cabbage tribe. 1890 Cent. Dict. Field bug, a bug of the genus Pentatoma. 1914 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 205 128 A very definite and copious exudation of sugar..suffices to attract insects, more particularly a field bug, Odontopus sexpunctulatus. < as lemmas |
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