| 单词 | walking-stick mantis |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswalking-stick mantis 2. Frequently in form walkingstick. Any of various insects of the order Phasmida having elongated bodies resembling twigs or pieces of plant stem. Also walking-stick insect, †walking-stick mantis. Cf. stick insect n. at stick n.1 Compounds 2. Now chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Phasmida > family Phasmidae walking stick1760 leaf insect1795 spectre1798 stick insect1826 spectrum1838 phasmid1864 stick bug1868 twig insect1882 witch's horse1894 1760 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. II. 168 Fig. 4..represents..the Walking-stick. It is so much like a dry stick, that it is supposed to deceive birds and other animals, that prey upon insects. 1832 W. Fox Let. 28 Sept. in C. Darwin Corr. (1985) I. 266 There is also among them the Walking stick Mantis and a huge Nepa, or nearly allied to it. 1872 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 6) vii. 182 As in the case..of a walking-stick insect (Ceroxylus laceratus). 1885 C. F. Holder Marvels Animal Life 146 The walking-sticks..resembling the twig upon which they rest. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses v. 115 Some insects scatter their eggs at random, as does our common walkingstick (Diapheromera), which drops its eggs on the ground. 1974 Brownsville (Texas) Herald 6 Nov. 11 a/3 (heading) Walking stick insect is a whiz at disguise to resemble a twig. 2002 Sci. Amer. Nov. 44/3 The animals look like a bizarre cross between a mantis (order Mantodea) and a walkingstick (order Phasmatodea). < as lemmas |
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