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单词 hister
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histern.

Brit. /ˈhɪstə/, U.S. /ˈhɪstər/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Hister.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Hister, genus name ( Linnaeus Systema naturæ (ed 10, 1758) I. 358) < classical Latin hister actor (see histrio n.).
More fully hister beetle. Any beetle of the genus Hister or (in later use) the family Histeridae, typically having an oval, hard, shiny black body (sometimes with red or orange markings) and clubbed, geniculate antennae, and most commonly living in decaying animal and plant material and dung. Also (in form Hister): the genus itself.
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1769 J. Berkenhout Outl. Nat. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland I. 90 Hister. Antennæ broken in the middle with a solid bulb at the end. Head retractile.
1794 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. III. 165 Hister... Engl. The hister.
1839 J. O. Westwood Introd. Mod. Classif. Insects I. 182 Cadet de Vaux, in his History of the Mole, observes that, almost as soon as it is dead, it is attacked by a number of Histers.
1882 Entomologist 15 248 Histers are usually considered to be exceedingly hard to set, but if taken when properly relaxed they are very easy.
1925 A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. 483 Hister and its allies frequent dung and carrion.
1969 D. F. Costello Prairie World vii. 136 In succeeding days the procession of insects included fruit flies, coreid bugs, soldier flies, hister beetles, carrion beetles, and skin beetles.
2010 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 6 May 6 Native Midland insect the hister beetle vanished from England in the 19th century.

Derivatives

ˈhisterid adj. and n. [after scientific Latin Histeridae, family name (1819 or earlier)] (a) n. a beetle of the family Histeridae; (b) adj.of or relating to this family.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Staphylinoidea > member of family Histeridae
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [adjective] > pert to the Staphylinodea or Brachelytra > belonging to family Histeridae
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1864 T. V. Wollaston Catal. Coleopterous Insects Canaries 163 This large and peculiar Histerid altogether escaped my own observation in these islands.
1915 W. A. Bryan Nat. Hist. Hawaii 417 The histerid beetles.
1995 Coleopterists Bull. 49 253 Larval Epierus and apparently all other histerid larvae are liquid feeders.
2006 Amer. Biol. Teacher 68 407/2 (caption) Small numbers of adult clown beetles (histerids) were collected.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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