| 单词 | pollen brush |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspollen brush pollen brush n. Entomology a brush-like structure of hairs on the legs of certain bees, used for collecting pollen off the body; also called scopa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > pollen basket on leg > pollen-brush scopa1802 pollen brush1840 1840 J. O. Westwood Introd. Mod. Classif. Insects II. 260 The other instruments consist of bundles of hairs, whence they have been termed the scopa or scopula by Mr. Kirby, ‘la brosse’ by the French, and which we may call the pollen brushes. 1900 J. T. Cunningham Sexual Dimorphism v. 261 In the hive bee the pollen-brush on the legs is wanting in the queen, but present in the worker. 1996 Ecol. Monogr. 66 237/2 The anthidiine females are provided with rows of stiff bristles on the underside of their metasoma forming a pollen brush or ‘scopa’. < as lemmas |
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