| 单词 | pinacate bug |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspinacate bug 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.’ < as lemmas |
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