| 单词 | sun-beetle |
| 释义 | > as lemmassun-beetle sun-beetle n. any of various scarabaeid or carabid beetles, esp. of the genus Amara, which are typically shiny black, bronze, or green in colour, and are commonly seen in sunny weather; cf. sunshiner n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > member of subfamily Cetoniinae or genus Cetonia sun-beetle1839 flower-beetle1842 1839 G. Newport in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 886/2 In the sun-beetles..the eyes are very protuberant. 1864 J. G. Wood Our Garden Friends & Foes viii. 146 The beautiful insects termed Sun Beetles, from their habit of running about exposed to the full glare of the sunbeams,..mostly belong to two genera known by the name of Amara and Pœcilus. 1964 Guardian 13 June 6/3 A blue and black sun beetle rustled the dry grass. 2009 N. Cave Death Bunny Munro (2010) xv. 124 Bunny Junior sits in the Punto and watches a little sun beetle land on the windscreen and..wonders how anything so common could be so beautiful. < as lemmas |
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