| 单词 | miller moth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmiller moth a. Any of various white or white-powdered insects, esp. moths; esp. (a) (more fully miller moth) a noctuid moth, spec. a pale grey and white noctuid, Acronicta leporina; †(b) an alderfly, Sialis lutaria (obsolete). Cf. dusty miller n. at dusty adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > marking or colouring > white (powdered) insect miller1668 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > member of genus Acronycta > acronicta leporina (moth-miller) miller1668 moth-miller1846 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > division Endopterygota or Metabola (winged) > [noun] > order Neuroptera > suborder Megaloptera > family Sianidae > sialis lutarius (alder-fly) miller1668 yellow miller1760 alderfly1766 alder1856 orl1875 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > genus Melolontha > member of (cockchafer) chaferc1000 kafer1599 cockchafer1668 miller1668 May-bug1688 May-beetle1720 oak-web1720 humbuzz1756 May-chafer1766 dor-beetle1774 locust1790 fern-web1796 melolonthian1841 lamellicorn1842 furze-owl1847 rose beetle1856 melolonthid1928 billywitch1933 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 47 Blatta..Molendinaria, the Miller, because always whited with a delicate Down. a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) ii. 144 A Fly like a great Millar flew out from the place. 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 382 Miller moth (Noctua leporina). 1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 177 White miller or owl fly..yellow miller or owl fly. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 21 Miller, a moth. Probably the ghost-moth, phalæna humuli, from the lightness of its colour. Hartshorne, in his Salopia, appropriates this name to ‘the larva of a lepidopterous insect, known in its imago state by the appellation of vanessa urticæ’. 1858 H. W. Beecher & E. D. Proctor Life Thoughts 277 Would you put the lamp out in your house because moths and millers burn their wings in it? 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native III. iv. vii. 58 White miller-moths flew into the air. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 113/1 Miller, a moth of any kind, esp. a large white moth; also a white butterfly. 1935 H. L. Davis Honey in Horn vi. 78 Like a miller-moth batting against a lamp chimney. 1961 H. M. Edelsten & D. S. Fletcher South's Moths Brit. Isles (new ed.) I. 263 The Miller... In its typical form the wings are quite white, with but little in the way of marking. 1986 M. Chinery Insects Brit. & W. Europe 163 Miller moth..is very pale, with few black marks. < as lemmas |
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