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单词 long-horned
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long-hornedadj.

Brit. /ˈlɒŋhɔːnd/, U.S. /ˈlɔŋˌ(h)ɔrnd/, /ˈlɑŋˌ(h)ɔrnd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: long adj.1, horned adj.
Etymology: < long adj.1 + horned adj.
Having long horns or hornlike projections; (of an insect or other arthropod) having long antennae.
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1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. C ivv Anagyris..hath a fruyte in long horned coddes..whiche when the grape is ripe wexeth harde.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ibice, a swift, and long-horned-wild Goat, or beast like Goat, liuing among the snowie tops of the Alpes.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 407 After which [flowers] come small seede in long horned vessels.
1658 E. Phillips Generosi Ludentes 47 in Myst. Love & Eloquence Unicorne. Long-horned, Virgin, loving, Indian, savage, Lyon, hating, pretious, rich, horned, furious.
1777 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, quarto) IV. v. 3 Cancer. Crab... Longicornis..Longhorned.
1810 R. Parkinson Treat. Breeding & Managem. Live Stock I. i. 102 The Long-horned, Craven, or Lancashire breed, is distinguished from other cattle by the length of the horns.
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. xi. 249 The muchocho or common white rhinoceros, and the kobaoba or long-horned white rhinoceros.
1929 J. F. Dobie Vaquero of Brush Country 20 The ‘coasters’, or ‘sea lions’, as people sometimes called the longhorned cattle of the coast country, could swim like ducks.
1950 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 9 8/2 In the lower right center area are two relatively large and long-horned animals resembling oryx.
1971 C. Johansen in R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) iv. 134 Key to the major economic families of Diptera. 1 Antennae many segmented (long-horned flies).
2002 T. Pinchuck et al. Rough Guide S. Afr. (ed. 3) 287 Finds include fossils from lion-sized sabre-toothed cats..and sivatheres—long-horned, short-necked giraffe-like browsers.

Compounds

long-horned beetle n. = longhorn beetle n. at longhorn n. Compounds.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Cerambycidae > member of (long-horn beetle)
long-horned beetle1834
longicorn1849
longhorn beetle1879
longhorn1902
1834 Royal Lady's Mag. Apr. 137 A description of a fine new long-horned beetle from Singapore, named Prionus Hopei, by Mr. Waterhouse.
1968 R. D. Martin tr. W. Wickler Mimicry in Plants & Animals viii. 86 The long-horned beetle Erythrus rotundicollis also resembles the same bug.
2005 S. Bliss Troubleshooting Guide Resid. Constr. ix. 245/3 One type of long-horned beetle common in the mid-Atlantic states..primarily infests wood that has been in service ten years or less.
long-horned grasshopper n. a cricket or grasshopper with long antennae; spec. a bush cricket (family Tettigoniidae).The species mentioned in quot. 1888 belongs in fact to the family of short-horned grasshoppers ( Acrididae).
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1888 C. H. Fernald Orthoptera New Eng. 44 (heading) Psinidia fenistralis... The Long-horned Grasshopper.
1898 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 667 The green grass is swarming with the so-called ‘long-horned’ grasshoppers.
1920 W. J. Lucas Monogr. Brit. Orthoptera 5 Locustodea (Long-horned Grasshoppers).
2000 A. J. Whitten et al. Ecol. Sumatra (new ed.) xii. 390 The long-horned grasshoppers Conocephalus are also eaten.
long-horned owl n. Obsolete the long-eared owl, Asio otus.Quot. 1922 perhaps refers to the American horned owl, Bubo virginianus.
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1827 Nuovo Giornale de' Letterati 14 179/2 (list) Strix otus L. Long-horned Owl.
1870 E. F. Im Thurn Birds of Marlborough 11 Otus vulgaris. Long-eared Owl. Local Names. Long-horned Owl, Horned Owl.
1908 M. C. H. Bird in Nature Bk. 25/2 The White or Barn Owl..hisses, snores, and shrieks; whilst the Long-horned Owl mews and barks.
1922 J. W. H. Atkins in Owl & Nightingale Introd. p. lxviii The other qualities, on the other hand, had reference to the long-horned owl (bubo).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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