单词 | tipula |
释义 | Tipulan. Entomology. A genus of dipterous insects, typical of the family Tipulidæ or crane-flies, the common British species of which are familiarly known as daddy-long-legs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Tipulidae > member of (crane-fly) crane-fly1658 harry-long-legs1676 tailor1682 long legs1721 father-long-legs1742 Tipula1752 tommy-long-legs1800 Tom Tailor1800 meadow crane fly1813 jenny-spinner1817 daddy-long-legs1829 spinner-fly1848 granddaddy-long-legs1858 tipulid1893 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1023 We shall take Gaza's Tipulæ into our consideration among the Water-worms. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tipula (Lat.), a Water-spider with six Feet, that runs on the top of the Water without sinking. 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxiii. 371 Linné, in his Lapland tour, noticed a black Tipula which ran over the water, and turned round like a Gyrinus.] Derivatives tipularian adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [adjective] > belonging or allied to family Tipulidae tipularian1817 tipulidan1817 tipulary1832 tipulideous1840 1817Tipularian [see tipulidan adj.]. tipulary adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [adjective] > belonging or allied to family Tipulidae tipularian1817 tipulidan1817 tipulary1832 tipulideous1840 1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xviii. 248 On the streams..the tipulary flies do not make their appearance. 1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. II. xxiv. 438 Perhaps, also, the destruction of forests..will somewhat tend to diminish the torment of the tipulary insects. ˈtipulid n. (a) n. belonging to the family Tipulidæ; (b) n. an insect of this family, a crane-fly. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Tipulidae > member of (crane-fly) crane-fly1658 harry-long-legs1676 tailor1682 long legs1721 father-long-legs1742 Tipula1752 tommy-long-legs1800 Tom Tailor1800 meadow crane fly1813 jenny-spinner1817 daddy-long-legs1829 spinner-fly1848 granddaddy-long-legs1858 tipulid1893 1893 Athenæum 20 May 641/2 Dicranota, a Carnivorous Tipulid Larva. 1951 C. N. Colyer & C. O. Hammond Flies Brit. Isles xxv. 317 It will seem a far cry from the large, long-winged, long-legged Tipulids. 1976 Nature 22 Jan. 251/2 There is no evidence that hen grouse do eat tipulids during incubation. tiˈpulidan adj. = tipulid n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [adjective] > belonging or allied to family Tipulidae tipularian1817 tipulidan1817 tipulary1832 tipulideous1840 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxii. 277 The grub of a kind of gnat.., and also another, probably of the Tipulidan [1828 Tipularian] tribe.., have each a fleshy leg on the underside of the first segment. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) III. xxix. 79 The eggs of..gnats and other Tipulidans [are] set afloat upon, or submerged in, the water. tipuˈlideous adj. = tipulidan adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [adjective] > belonging or allied to family Tipulidae tipularian1817 tipulidan1817 tipulary1832 tipulideous1840 1840 J. O. Westwood Introd. Mod. Classif. Insects II. 170 Checking the over-production of some of the minute Tipulideous insects. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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