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单词 pityocampa
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pityocampan.

Forms: 1600s pityocampe, 1600s pityocampie, 1700s–1800s pityocampa.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin pityocampa; Greek πιτυοκάμπη.
Etymology: < classical Latin pityocampa (Pliny) and its etymon Hellenistic Greek πιτυοκάμπη < ancient Greek πιτυο- , combining form (compare -o- connective) of πίτυς pine tree (probably < the same Indo-European base as pine n.2) + κάμπη caterpillar (see campodean adj. and n.).
Obsolete.
A caterpillar bearing urticating hairs, spec. that of the pine processionary moth, Thaumetopoea pityocampa, which inhabits pine trees in southern and central Europe.
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1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 104 The most venomous is that which is called Pityocampe, whose byting is poyson.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 105 Vlpian..esteemeth the giuer of any Pityocampie in drinke or otherwise to any one, to be doomed a murtherer.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Pityocampa, a Worm breeding in the Pine-tree, the biting of which is venomous.
1754 tr. F. Hoffmann Treat. Asses Milk 7 Milk..is serviceable against corrosions and inflammations occasioned by deadly poisons, such as cantharides, pityocampa, salamandra, or bupreste, [etc.].
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. iv. 131 Of this nature also is the famous Pityocampa of the ancients, the moth of the fir.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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