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单词 galleyworm
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galleywormn.

/ˈɡalɪwəːm/
Forms: Also gallyworm.
Etymology: < galley n. + worm n., from the resemblance to a galley propelled by numerous oars.
An insect of the class Myriapoda; an iulus.
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1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1047 All these Gally~worms, if they be touched roll themselves up, and become round.
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 17 Gally-worm, the brown Iulus, with a hundred legs on each side.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 303 The Gally worm differs from the scolopendra, in having double the number of feet.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvi. 66 De Geer..thinks that the common Julus [foot-note J. terrestris], or Gallyworm feeds upon earth.
1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man vi. 136 Galley-worms or millipedes; wingless, many-jointed, and many-footed crawlers, resembling worms, but more allied to insects.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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