| 单词 | grave-digging |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrave-digging grave-digging n. (cf. gravedigger n.). ΚΠ 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. v. 48 The Grave-digging Scene next engaged the Attention of Partridge. View more context for this quotation grave-digging grave-digging adj. epithet of certain insects (see gravedigger n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [adjective] > that buries bodies for larva grave-digging1847 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. at Grave Grave-digging or burying beetle. 1851 P. H. Gosse Naturalist's Sojourn Jamaica 147 The labour of the bee is play compared with the efforts of the grave-digging Sphex. < as lemmas |
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