pinacaten.

Brit.

/piːnəˈkɑːteɪ/, U.S.

/ˌpinəˈkɑˌteɪ/

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish pinacate.

Etymology: < Mexican Spanish pinacate < Nahuatl pinacatl (both 1571 in A. de Molina Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana).Compare the following earlier isolated borrowing of Nahuatl pinacatl via Italian pinacatl (1780 in the passage translated in the following quot.):1787 C. Cullen tr. F. S. Clavigero Hist. Mexico I. i. 67 The beetles are of several kinds, and mostly harmless. Some of them are of a green colour, and are called by the Mexicans, Majatl..there are others black, of a disagreeable smell and irregular form, which are called Pinacatl.

U.S. regional (south-western).

More fully pinacate beetle, pinacate bug. Any of several flightless black darkling beetles of the genus Eleodes found in the deserts of Arizona and northwestern Mexico, known for the foul-smelling liquid they emit when attacked. Cf. stink-bug n. at stink n. Compounds.

ΚΠ

1895 J. H. Comstock & A. B. Comstock Man. Study Insects 584 The most common species are large, smooth, club-shaped beetles..commonly known as Pinacate-bugs.

1919 Sci. Monthly June 514 In the garden, on cacti, were quite a number of curious black longicorns of the genus Monilema (M. grandis), looking like large pinacate beetles (Eleodes) out of place.

1966 Los Angeles Times 6 Oct. ii. 5/3 On the Arizona desert lives a one-inch-long black beetle known biologically as Eleodes and popularly as Pinacate beetle.

1971 E. S. Bakker Island called Calif. xviii. 284 He is known by several names—tumblebug, stinkbug, and pinacate.

2000 T. Paine Scar Vegas 179 ‘Pinacate beetle,’ said Kyle. ‘Tap it and it gives off this killer smell.’

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pinacate
释义	pinacaten. Brit. /piːnəˈkɑːteɪ/, U.S. /ˌpinəˈkɑˌteɪ/ Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish pinacate. Etymology: < Mexican Spanish pinacate < Nahuatl pinacatl (both 1571 in A. de Molina Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana).Compare the following earlier isolated borrowing of Nahuatl pinacatl via Italian pinacatl (1780 in the passage translated in the following quot.):1787 C. Cullen tr. F. S. Clavigero Hist. Mexico I. i. 67 The beetles are of several kinds, and mostly harmless. Some of them are of a green colour, and are called by the Mexicans, Majatl..there are others black, of a disagreeable smell and irregular form, which are called Pinacatl. U.S. regional (south-western). More fully pinacate beetle, pinacate bug. Any of several flightless black darkling beetles of the genus Eleodes found in the deserts of Arizona and northwestern Mexico, known for the foul-smelling liquid they emit when attacked. Cf. stink-bug n. at stink n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1895 J. H. Comstock & A. B. Comstock Man. Study Insects 584 The most common species are large, smooth, club-shaped beetles..commonly known as Pinacate-bugs. 1919 Sci. Monthly June 514 In the garden, on cacti, were quite a number of curious black longicorns of the genus Monilema (M. grandis), looking like large pinacate beetles (Eleodes) out of place. 1966 Los Angeles Times 6 Oct. ii. 5/3 On the Arizona desert lives a one-inch-long black beetle known biologically as Eleodes and popularly as Pinacate beetle. 1971 E. S. Bakker Island called Calif. xviii. 284 He is known by several names—tumblebug, stinkbug, and pinacate. 2000 T. Paine Scar Vegas 179 ‘Pinacate beetle,’ said Kyle. ‘Tap it and it gives off this killer smell.’ This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1895
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