单词 | scolopendra |
释义 | scolopendran.ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > types of mythical fish verme1572 scolopendra1590 land-fish1609 scolopender1658 wyver-fish1857 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aav Bright Scolopendraes, arm'd with siluer scales. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 154 But if the Scolopendra have suckt in The sower-sweet morsell with the barbed Pinne, She hath as rare a trick to ridd her from-it: For instantly, she all her guts doth vomit, [etc.]. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Scolopendra, a fish that feeling himselfe taken with a hooke, casteth out his bowels, vntill hee hath vnloosed the hooke, and then swalloweth them vp againe. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi viii. §1. 384 The Scolopendra is a fish..which refuseth not the bait. 2. A centipede or millipede. Also (with capital initial), a Linnean genus of myriapods, including the largest and most formidable of the centipedes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Chilopoda > member of scolopender1562 centipede1601 scolopendra1608 forty-foot1677 millipede1684 forty legs1697 thousand-feet1704 thousand-legs1807 Meg-many-feet1813 chilopodan1835 chilopod1837 twenty-foot worm- the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Chilopoda > genus Scolopendra scolopender1562 scolopendra1608 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Pauropoda > suborder Diplopoda or Chilognatha > member of (millepede) scolopender1562 millipede1601 scolopendra1608 thousand-feet1704 thousand-legs1807 chilognathan1835 wireworm1838 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 31 There are Scolopendraes Vipers, and Slow-wormes in Creete, yet..they are without venome. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Scolopendre, the Scolopendria, a reddish, many-legd, and venomous worme. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xv. 142 Upon the same ground hath arisen the same mistake concerning the Scolopendra or hundred footed insect. View more context for this quotation 1677 E. Browne Acct. Trav. Germany 17 An Indian Scolopendria, or Forty-foot. 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) at Dying [Advancement of] The amber-coloured scolopendra will give, with lye, a most beautiful and pleasant azure. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxiii. 167 We discovered some scolopendras, or centipedes, no less than eight or ten inches in length. 1829 H. Murray Hist. Acct. Discoveries & Trav. N. Amer. I. xi. 516 Rattlesnakes and scolopendras crawled about. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. v. ii. 265 The Scolopendra are insects belonging to the order Myriopoda and to the family Chilopoda. They are commonly termed Millipedes. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in reproach > female casbaldc1440 giba1529 cosbaude1570 tarleather1575 scolopendra1633 fleak1636 1633 J. Shirley Gamester ii. ii More wine, you varlets! And call your mistress up, you scolopendra. 1673 Siege in W. Davenant Wks. v. 83/1 Go bring a Barrel hither; why? when you Scolopendra. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1590 |
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