单词 | water bug |
释义 | > as lemmaswater bug water bug n. (a) any of various heteropteran bugs that live in or on water, now regarded as constituting the infraorders Nepomorpha and Gerromorpha; (b) U.S. a cockroach (order Blattodea). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of > aquatic bug or tarsal joint of water bug1745 pala1865 needle-bug1896 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Dictyoptera > member of genus Blatta (cockroach) > blatta orientalis (water-bug) water bug1868 1745 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd I. June xi. 71 Of Water-bugs.—I have made Observations on Bugs of different Kinds in stagnate Waters. 1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xii. 180 Fred..did his best to upset both [the other boats] by paddling about in a wherry, like a disturbed water-bug. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiii. 318 The term Heteroptera..includes the ordinary plant-bugs and water-bugs. 1967 Kiplinger Mag. Nov. 34/1 The American cockroach..has many aliases, such as ‘waterbug’, ‘palmetto bug’ and ‘Bombay canary’. 2013 Daily Tel. 19 Mar. 30/2 An entrepreneurial Thai woman [was] selling fried grasshoppers, silkworms and water bugs to curious tourists. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。