| 单词 | mother wasp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmother wasp mother wasp n. now rare a queen wasp (in quot. 1679, interpreted as a male wasp). ΚΠ 1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie iv. sig. D7 In their last brood, which is in Scorpio..they haue..drones or male-wasps..and mother-wasps. 1679 M. Rusden Further Discov. Bees 4 The Male among Wasps, which some call the Mother-Wasp, stings more venemously than the common Wasp doth. 1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 114 One great Mother-wasp..lying hid in some hollow Tree, or other Latibulum. 1886 Science 5 Feb. 128/2 The mother-wasp..knows the kind of an egg she is to lay. 1927 F. Balfour-Browne Insects viii. 188 The mother wasp burrows in the ground or in decaying vegetable material or rotten wood in search of the larvæ of chafer beetles. 1988 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 57 164 Eggs are laid, and larvae develop, in small groups on the outside of hosts which have been paralysed by the mother wasp. < as lemmas |
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