| 单词 | typographic beetle |
| 释义 | > as lemmastypographic beetle 3. A beetle, Bostrychus (or Tomicus) typographicus, which makes print-like markings in the bark of trees. Also called typographic beetle. Also typographer (bark-) beetle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > member of family Bostrichidae typographer (bark-) beetle1840 1840 J. Loudon & M. Loudon tr. V. Köllar Treat. Insects iii. 357 The Typographer Bark-beetle. 1840 J. Loudon & M. Loudon tr. V. Köllar Treat. Insects iii. 358 The larvæ..gnaw tortuous passages,..which, on account of their resemblance to letters, have obtained for the beetle the name of typographer. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §656 The Typographer beetle..devours, both in the larva and perfect states, the soft wood beneath the bark,..and thus causes the death of the tree. < as lemmas |
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