| 单词 | june bug |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJune bug June bug n. now chiefly North American any of various chafers which appear in early summer; esp.: (a) North American = June beetle n. (a); (b) North American = June beetle n. (b); (c) the garden chafer, Phyllopertha horticola, a small brown and metallic-green beetle found commonly in Eurasia.In quot. 1799, applied, perhaps by confusion, to a dung beetle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > miscellaneous types > June-bug June bug1799 1799 E. A. Kendall Beauties Saint Pierre 105 We have not perhaps in Europe any insect of richer and gayer clothing than the beetle and fly, which are sometimes called May, and June, Bugs, and which live on dunghills. c1831 Jim Crow 2 Dere's possum up de gumtree, An Raccoon in de hollow, Wake Snakes for June Bugs Stole my half a dollar. 1836 Congress. Globe 5 May 349/2 They hopped upon it, to use a homely phrase, like a duck on a June-bug. 1866 E. C. Rye Brit. Beetles xiii. 115 Phyllopertha horticola, the small ‘June-bug’.., is often very destructive to plants. 1906 W. Churchill Coniston xv. 189 June-bugs hummed in at the high windows. 1973 M. R. Crowell Greener Pastures 200 At the bird bath I find a June bug—the early brown kind known as a May beetle. 2006 Oxf. Amer. Spring 103/1 A June bug is..a scarab beetle that shows up in numbers when the weather turns warm, then quickly thins out. Hold it close and you'll see yourself fish-eyed in its green, metallic belly. < as lemmas |
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