单词 | mirid |
释义 | miridn.adj. Entomology. A. n. A bug of the heteropteran family Miridae (formerly called Capsidae: cf. capsid adj. and n.1), which includes a large number of insects that live on the sap of plants, often causing damage; a leaf-bug or plant-bug. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of Capsidae or Miridae capsid1889 mirid1924 1924 Ecology 5 250 Leaf-hoppers were comparatively plentiful, as were mirids, grasshoppers, [etc.]. 1941 Bull. Illinois Nat. Hist. Survey 22 2/1 The eggs of most mirids hatch early in the season. 1957 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 9) iii. 461 Other Mirids do considerable damage to cultivated plants. 1962 C. L. Metcalf & W. P. Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) vi. 225 Anyone who sits down in a grassy, weedy spot in early summer..can scarcely fail to make the acquaintance of some of the hundreds of kinds of mirids that crawl about over the vegetation and feed on its sap. 1989 Antenna 13 106 The only mirid taken during the survey was the commonest hemipteran on Tarchoranthus. B. adj. Of or belonging to the family Miridae of insects. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [adjective] > hemimetabolous > relating to or characteristic of Hemiptera > of Heteroptera > belonging to family Capsidae or Miridae > of or relating to member of mirid1941 1941 Bull. Illinois Nat. Hist. Survey 22 3/2 A majority of mirid species produce only one generation per year. 1974 E. Pollard et al. Hedges (1977) ix. 110 The nettle itself seems to be very rarely affected by its fauna, which include aphids, psyllids, weevils, leaf hoppers, mirid bugs and thrips. 1993 M. Chinery Insects Brit. & N. Europe (ed. 3) 110 Many of our mirid species are very common and can be taken in numbers by sweeping or beating herbage in summer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1924 |
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