英语词汇“biscuit beetle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

biscuit beetle n. chiefly British (originally) any of various small beetles which are pests on dried foodstuffs, such as flour, biscuits, herbs, and seeds, and other material derived from plants and animals, such as paper and leather; (in later use spec.) Stegobium paniceum, also called (esp. North American) drugstore beetle.

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1889 Indian Museum Notes 1 No. 1, 60 Biscuit beetles. From Mr. W. N. Duncan, of Calcutta, were received (21st June 1888), specimens of beetles which injure ship's-biscuits... Dr. Günther, of the British Museum,..reports on them as follows:—‘All common warehouse insects, Silvanus surinamensis, Rhizopertha pusilla, and Tribolium ferrugineum’.

1990 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 30 Jan. The larva of the biscuit beetle (Stegobium Paniceum to its friends) is fond of the flour paste used in earlier times to glue pages to their bindings.

2010 R. Jones House Guests, House Pests v. 106 The first time I ever found biscuit beetles, they were floating to the surface of the milk I was pouring onto my breakfast cereal.

单词	biscuit beetle
释义	> as lemmas biscuit beetle biscuit beetle n. chiefly British (originally) any of various small beetles which are pests on dried foodstuffs, such as flour, biscuits, herbs, and seeds, and other material derived from plants and animals, such as paper and leather; (in later use spec.) Stegobium paniceum, also called (esp. North American) drugstore beetle. ΚΠ 1889 Indian Museum Notes 1 No. 1, 60 Biscuit beetles. From Mr. W. N. Duncan, of Calcutta, were received (21st June 1888), specimens of beetles which injure ship's-biscuits... Dr. Günther, of the British Museum,..reports on them as follows:—‘All common warehouse insects, Silvanus surinamensis, Rhizopertha pusilla, and Tribolium ferrugineum’. 1990 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 30 Jan. The larva of the biscuit beetle (Stegobium Paniceum to its friends) is fond of the flour paste used in earlier times to glue pages to their bindings. 2010 R. Jones House Guests, House Pests v. 106 The first time I ever found biscuit beetles, they were floating to the surface of the milk I was pouring onto my breakfast cereal. extracted from biscuitn.adj. < as lemmas
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