| 单词 | parsley caterpillar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparsley caterpillar parsley caterpillar n. U.S. the larva of the anise swallowtail butterfly, Papilio zelicaon, which is a pest of plants of the family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae) in western North America; cf. parsleyworm n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Papilionidae > genus Papilio > papilio polyxenes asterius (parsley butterfly) > larva of parsleyworm1842 parsley caterpillara1856 a1856 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects Injurious to Vegetation (1862) 637/2 Parsley-caterpillars. 1926 E. O. Essig Insects Western N. Amer. xxvii. 634 The western parsley caterpillar, Papilio zelicaon,..is yellow or orange and black. 1962 C. L. Metcalf & W. P. Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) xiv. 675 In the West it [sc. the parsleyworm] is replaced by the western parsley caterpillar. < as lemmas |
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