单词 | tinea |
释义 | tinean. 1. Pathology. Technical name of the disease ringworm n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > ring-worm or favus achorOE scalled-head1340 motha1398 tinea1398 serpigoc1400 ringworma1425 scald1561 tetterworm1622 surpeguea1632 serpentine1639 scald head1673 favus1706 honeycomb scall1817 dhobie itch1890 trichophytosis1890 scaly ringworm1898 whitehead1911 athlete's foot1928 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) vii. iii Þe heed is ofte dissesed with an yuel þatt children haue ofte..and we clepith þat yuel Tinea a moþþe, for it freeteþ and gnawith þe oure parties of þe skynne of þe heed as a moþþe freteþ clooþ. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurgie 181 Cirurgians.. clepid tineam þere þat þere is corrupcioun in þe skyn wiþ harde crustis & quytture. 1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 282 If running Sores in the Head..continue long..they grow into Tineas, crusty stinking Ulcers of the Head, which gnaw and consume its Skin. 1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 169 A circle of small sores, like what takes place in tinea. 1862 H. Macmillan in Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 466 Yeast..granules may be made to induce the ordinary parasitic skin diseases—a few germs rubbed into the head..producing..tinea. 2. (With capital initial.) Entomology. Name given by Haworth to a genus of small moths ( Microlepidoptera), the larvæ of which are very destructive to cloth, feathers, soft paper, decaying wood, stuffed birds, etc., examples of which are the common clothes-moths, T. tapetzella, and T. pellionella, and the very destructive pest in museums of natural history, T. destructor. In earlier times the word was applied to other destructive insects and worms. ΚΠ 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1100 Pliny saith that Tineæ do destroy the seeds of Figs... Niphus cals that little Scorpion which eats books Tineas, whereof I spake in the history of Scorpions. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tinea,..the Moth, an Insect that eats Clothes. 1912 N.E.D. at Tinea Mod. The genus Tinea contains about 100 species, of which 15 were recorded as British in Rennie's Conspectus 1832. Derivatives ˈtinean adj. and n. (a) adj. of or belonging to the genus Tinea or family Tineidæ; (b) n. a member of this genus or family. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > member of (tineid) leaf miner1830 miner1830 tinean1842 tineid1888 1842 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects New Eng. 361 The Tineans..have four short and slender feelers. ˈtineid adj. and n. = tinean adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [adjective] > relating to family Tineidae tineid1888 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > member of (tineid) leaf miner1830 miner1830 tinean1842 tineid1888 1888 Insect Life 1 191 These insects..are cloth-feeding Tineids. 1890 Insect Life 2 330 The Tineid Leaf-miner..affects the younger leaves only. 1891 Cent. Dict. Tinean, Tineid. 1924 J. A. Thomson Sci. Old & New x. 55 There is a very interesting Tineid caterpillar, found in the tree-nest of one of the Termites. 1964 Edwards & Heath Princ. Agric. Entom. xiii. 285 Corn moth..is one of the most common Tineid moths which attacks grain. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1398 |
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