| 单词 | stinging lizard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstinging lizard a. of animals. stinging lizard, one of several North American lizards, esp. a spiny lizard of the genus Sceloporus, also called a scorpion. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > stinging stingingc1230 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > smarting or stinging > of animal stingingc1230 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Iguanidae > member of genus Sceloporus (fence-lizard) swift1530 pine lizard1842 stinging lizard1870 fence-lizard1889 c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 45 Herst tu hu Salomon eueneð bacbitere to stinginde neddre. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxiii. 28 Stynggynge flies. 1569 E. Spenser tr. Petrarch Epigr. in T. Roest tr. J. van der Noot Theatre Worldlings sig. Bviv A stinging Serpent by the heele hir caught. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. i. 14 Like stinging Bees in hottest summers day. View more context for this quotation 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. i. 21 Swarmes of stinging Flies, whereof men dy'd. 1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 228 Stinging-Ants (Myrmicidæ). 1862 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects Injurious to Vegetation (ed. 3) 513 The stinging Hymenoptera. 1870 J. C. Duval Adventures Big-Foot Wallace xlv. 294 They chaw tobacco and drink whiskey even in the winter~time, when the ‘cow-killers’ and stinging-lizards are all frozen up. 1889 H. H. McConnell Five Years Cavalryman 77 The ‘scorpion’ or ‘stinging lizard’ abounds. 1892 J. A. Thomson Outl. Zool. x. 121 Cœlenterata or Stinging-animals. 1926 J. K. Strecker in J. F. Dobie Rainbow in Morning (1965) 61 The true scorpion is popularly called a ‘stinging lizard’, this misnomer being in common use throughout the state of Texas. < as lemmas |
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