| 单词 | potter wasp |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotter wasp potter wasp n. any of various solitary wasps, esp. of the family Eumenidae, which build flask-shaped nests of mud or clay which are attached to plants and into each of which is sealed an egg and a supply of food for the larva. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > member of family Eumenidae mason fly1750 mason wasp1815 potter wasp1848 wall-wasp1881 1848 T. W. Harris in Boston Cultivator 15 July 225/1 The Potter Wasp. This is a small wasp, of the solitary kind, called by Mr. Say, Eumenesfraterna [sic], plain and unpretending in appearance. 1880 M. Allan-Olney New Virginians I. 99 The little potter-wasp makes a nest of clay, shaped like an ancient pot, which it fills with caterpillars. 1924 J. A. Thomson Sci. Old & New v. 30 Lustrous jewel-wasps which lay their eggs in the decanter-like earthen nests of the potter-wasps. 1993 M. Chinery Insects Brit. & N. Europe (ed. 3) 273 Eumenes coarctatus is the Potter Wasp of sandy heathland. < as lemmas |
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