| 单词 | horn-bug | 
| 释义 | > as lemmashorn-bug   horn-bug  n. a North American beetle,  Passalus cornutus, having its head armed with a stout curved horn. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > 			[noun]		 > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > member of family Passalidae (horn-bug) horn-bug1775 passalid1916 1775    J. Trumbull MʽFingal 31  				Thinks hornbugs bullets, or thro' fears Muskitoes takes for musketeers. 1837    Southern Lit. Messenger 3 587  				I am an unfortunate victim..of every species of insect..the horn-bug, gad fly, dragon-fly [etc.]. 1869    H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks xxvii. 341  				You're saucy enough to physic a horn-bug. 1899    Mem. Amer. Folk-lore Soc. 7 63  				Horn-bugs, May-bees, May-flies, [etc.]. < as lemmas  | 
	
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