单词 | book scorpion |
释义 | > as lemmasbook scorpion book scorpion n. †(a) a person who is hostile to books or learning, represented as a scorpion (obsolete. rare); (b) a pseudoscorpion, esp. Chelifer cancroides, that is sometimes found in old books (where it preys on booklice and dust mites). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > division Pseudoarachnida > order Pseudoscorpiones > genus Chelifer book scorpion1823 book-crab1835 Chelifer1865 1649 A. Marvell in R. Lovelace Lucasta sig. a7 Swarms Of Insects..against you rise in arms. Word-peckers, Paper-rats, Book-scorpions. 1823 tr. J. P. F. Deleuze Hist. & Descr. Royal Mus. Nat. Hist. II. viii. 462 We often find in our book, herbals, etc., a small insect much like a scorpion, without a tail; it is the phalngium cancroïdes.., vulgarly called the book-scorpion. 1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 679 Book Scorpion, Chelifer Wideri. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiv. 366 Like miniature scorpions, but without the long tail or sting, are the book-scorpions or false-scorpions. 2001 H. Holmes Secret Life Dust x. 187 The book scorpion..awaits the innocent dust mite or book louse that might pass by. < as lemmas |
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