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单词 tipula
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Tipulan.

/ˈtɪpjʊlə/
Forms: Plural tipulæ /ˈtɪpjʊliː/.
Etymology: < Latin tippula (also tipula) a water-spider or water-bug; so used also by mediæval and early modern writers. The current use is due to Linnæus.
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.
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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.]
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 36 The great Tipula. This is the largest and the most beautiful of the Tipula kind.1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 151 The tipula is a harmless peaceful insect, that offers injury to nothing; the gnat is sanguinary and predaceous.1831 Brit. Farmer's Mag. VI. 321 The grub of this tipula commits its ravages chiefly in the first crop.

Derivatives

tipularian adj. /tɪpjʊˈlɛərɪən/ belonging or allied to the genus Tipula or family Tibulidæ; also as n. (sc. insect).
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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. /ˈtɪpjʊlərɪ/ = tipularian adj.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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