| 单词 | rice bug |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrice bug rice bug n. any of several slender hemipteran bugs of the genus Leptocorisa (family Alydidae), which are pests of ripening rice grains in South and South-East Asia; cf. rice sapper n. [The Indian name cited in quot. 1889 is apparently not the model for the English word, but perhaps a Bihari compound meaning ‘noisome bug’; compare Bhojpuri gānhī troublesome, Oriya gandhi putrid and Hindi makkhī fly (in a wide sense); the initial w in the quot. would then be the result of a misreading or typographical error.] ΚΠ 1889 E. T. Atkinson Indian Insect Pests 2 The Deputy Commissioner of Hazaribagh also reports the rice-bug (Gandhi wakkhi) as attacking the gora and badhi rice while in the ear. 1958 Science 28 Feb. 460/1 Effective insecticide treatment against the destructive rice borer and the rice bug has been found. 2006 Florida Entomologist 89 325/2 Previous greenhouse research with the rice bug Leptocorisa oratorius (F.)..showed a negative correlation of rice yield to bug density. < as lemmas |
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