单词 | pityocampa |
释义 | † pityocampan. Obsolete. A caterpillar bearing urticating hairs, spec. that of the pine processionary moth, Thaumetopoea pityocampa, which inhabits pine trees in southern and central Europe. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Thaumetopoeidae > thaumetopoeia pityocampa > larva pityocampa1608 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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