| 单词 | hardback beetle |
| 释义 | > as lemmashardback beetle a. Originally Caribbean. A beetle; esp. a flying beetle with hard wing cases. Also more fully hardback beetle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > member of (beetle) beetlea800 buddea1200 scarbot14.. escharbon1480 clock1568 black-bob1742 hardback1750 coleopter1860 Coleoptera1875 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 82 The Hardback. This fly is about half an inch long..Its membranaceous wings are defended with sheaths or shell-wings. 1837 A. Halliday W. Indies xiii. 225 Nov. 30th, 1834,—About seven o'clock this evening, during a heavy shower, with a strong breeze from the east, the windows were nearly broken in by a flight of beetles, called here the ‘Hard-back’. 1958 J. Carew Wild Coast ii. 22 Hector..watched a hardback beetle crawling up the wall... ‘Boy, if you kill all the hardbacks that come in here you will make a mess of my clean floor.’ 1967 New World Q. 3 101/2 Like the hard-back beetles which hurled themselves with suicidal force against the walls of the house at night, those menacing silver shapes [sc. planes] would hurl themselves..onto the land. 2012 N. Neal Gardener's Guide Trop. Plants 31 The adult ladybird beetle is a red-orange, round, hardback beetle with lots of spots. < as lemmas |
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