单词 | vine-fretter |
释义 | vine-frettern. Now rare or Obsolete. A grub or insect (in later use, a species of aphis) feeding upon vines. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by feeding or parasitism > parasite(s) > infesting vine-leaves vine-fretter1608 vine-grub1688 vine-leaf miner1830 vine-feeder1855 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > defined by parasitism or feeding > that destroys or eats plants > that feeds on vines vine-fretter1608 vine-grub1688 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > feeding on vines vine-fretter1608 vine-grub1688 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 105 After the maner of Vine-fretters, which are a kind of Catterpillers, or little hayrie wormes with many feete, that eate Vines when they begin to shoote. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. C2 The butyri in vines, and ipes, and the vinefretter in the leaves thereof. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Diseases of Trees The Vine-fretter, a little black Animal, does a great deal of Mischief to Trees. 1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 471 Almost all the peas in his neighbourhood were destroyed that year by a kind of vermin called vine-fretters. 1777 W. Hooper tr. C.-A. Helvétius Treat. Man I. 91 (note) We should..inclose a vine-fretter in a phial. 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Vine-Fretter,..an insect very destructive to vines, rose bushes, cabbages, &c. in the Southern States. 1895 Dublin Rev. Oct. 444 He considered the generation of vine fretters from a new point of view. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmasvine-fretter 1. †(a) A devourer. Obsolete. (b) That which gnaws, eats away, or corrodes. Obsolete except in vine-fretter: see quot. 1608. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > loss of material > eating away > that which fretter?1523 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxii Terre..is a frettar and no heylar without it be medled with some of these [sc. oil, butter, or grease]. 1568–9 Act 11 Eliz. in R. Bolton Statutes Ireland (1621) 298 The fretter of our lives and substance. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 105 Vine-fretters, which are a kind of Catterpillers, or little hayrie wormes with many feete, that eate Vines when they begin to shoote. 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. cxxx. 432 Other Farriers vse the powder of Risagallo, or Risagre, but it is a great deale too strong a fretter. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tavelliere, the little worme called a Wood-fretter. 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 Misc. Ess. 172/2 Reaumur has proved that vine fretters do not want an union of sexes for the multiplication of their kind. 1895 Dublin Rev. Oct. 444 He considered the generation of vine fretters from a new point of view. < n.1608 as lemmas |
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