单词 | pinch bug |
释义 | pinch bugn. U.S. regional (chiefly north Midland). A stag beetle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Lucanidae (stag-beetles) > member of genus Lucanus (stag-beetle) bull-fly1585 hornet1585 stag-fly1634 hartshorn beetle1658 flying hart1676 stag-beetle1681 flying stag1765 pinching bug1850 pinch bug1856 1856 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 25 May in Iowa Jrnl. Hist. (1929) 27 423 A tenor and bass duet by thirty-two thousand locusts and ninety-seven thousand pinch-bugs was sung. 1871 E. Eggleston Bk. Queer Stories ix. 74 We came to a log on which two of that sort of beetles that children call ‘pinch-bugs’, were fighting. 1915 W. A. Bryan Nat. Hist. Hawaii xxxi. 417 The stag-beetles or pinch bugs, so called on account of their large mandibles. 2000 State Jrnl.-Register (Springfield, Illinois) (Nexis) 29 July (Outdoors section) 12 A two inch, hard-shelled pinch bug with pinchers like ice picks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1856 |
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