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单词 seed corn maggot
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seed corn maggot
seed corn maggot n. U.S. the yellowish-white larva of a fly, Delia platura (family Anthomyiidae), which infests the planted seed of many crop plants, esp. beans and sweetcorn, preventing sprouting or causing the seedlings to be weak and spindly; (also) the adult fly; cf. radish fly n. at radish n. Compounds 2.
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1868 Amer. Entomologist 1 224/1 (heading) Seed-corn maggot.
1902 Bull. Div. Entomol. U.S. Dept. Agric. 33 84 The Seed-Corn Maggot..has received no less than seven Latin names.
1949 Jrnl. Econ. Entomol. 42 77/1 The seed corn maggot..injures bean, pea and corn seedlings before the plants emerge.
2003 R. Ozeki All over Creation i. 5 A host of pests that nobody could imagine why God had even bothered to create: Seedcorn maggots, leatherjackets, and millipedes.
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