| 单词 | water cricket |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater cricket water cricket n. †(a) a larva of a stonefly (order Plecoptera) (obsolete); (b) any of various predatory heteropteran water bugs of the genus Velia (family Veliidae), resembling a pond skater with shorter legs and living on the surface film (also called riffle bug). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Plecoptera > member of (stone-fly) > larva water creeper1662 water cricket1662 1662 R. Venables Experienc'd Angler iii. 23 Some call the flie bred of the water Cricket or Creeper a May-flie, and some a Stone-flie. ?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VII.–VIII. Table 70 Water Cricket,..This is a slow creeping Insect found at the bottom of Ponds amongst the Weeds. 1855 C. Kingsley Glaucus 159 Water-crickets, which you may find under any stone. 1961 New Scientist 27 July 232/1 If..the exact orientation changes with time, we have true navigation, as Birukow found recently in the water cricket, Velia. 2006 J. T. Costa Other Insect Societies xii. 357 The best studied species is the charmingly named water cricket Velia caprai. < as lemmas |
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