单词 | necrophilous |
释义 | necrophilousadj. 1. Zoology and Ecology. Feeding or growing on dead animal tissue; necrophagous. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Necrophilous, fond of carrion; specifically, pertaining to the genus Necrophilus. 1937 Bull. Brooklyn Entomol. Soc. 32 202 (title) The necrophilous habit in Coleoptera. 1989 Jrnl. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 62 11 (title) Ecology of necrophilous and filth-gathering stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponinae) of Peru. 1991 Nature 4 Apr. 383/1 Preliminary investigation of Lindow III has revealed no evidence of necrophilous elements such as fly pupae or the beetles which feed on them. 2. Affected with or characterized by necrophilia; necrophilic. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [adjective] > necrophilia necrophilistic1924 necrophilic1926 necrophilous1928 necrophile1937 necrophilist1949 necrophiliac1959 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xi. 181 ‘Really too necrophilous!’, said Willie Weaver. 1932 V. Woolf Let. to Young Poet 28 I, at any rate, refuse to be nekrophilus. 1956 ‘M. Innes’ Old Hall, New Hall i. v. 51 I don't think he was positively necrophilous. 1967 G. Greene May we borrow your Husband? 12 I think she wants something more nubile and less necrophilous. 1971 R. E. Witt Isis iii. 37 Horus, Harsiesis (‘Har, Son of Aset’), had been miraculously conceived by Isis in a necrophilous union. 2001 Contra Costa (Calif.) Times (Nexis) 3 June g8 Although the museum may seem to tap into the spirit of the Web's current gallows watch, Baldwin described his motives as archival rather than necrophilous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1890 |
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