| 单词 | water mite |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater mite water mite n. any of numerous mites adapted to living in water, typically acting as predators or parasites of other aquatic animals, esp. invertebrates. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > member of family Pisauridae water spider1702 water mite1763 water tick1763 raft spider1865 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by habitat or breeding place > aquatic insect water spider1547 water mite1763 water tick1763 1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. IV. xiii. 278 The Scarlet Water mite, has a body of an oval shape, and a depressed back. 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxiii. 365 The little water-mites (Hydrachna) may be seen in every pool thus working their little legs with great rapidity. 1941 R. Headstrom Adventures with Microscope xvi. 60 A very common water-mite of our ponds is a red species known by the name of Eylais. 2007 Behavioral Ecol. & Sociobiol. 61 1322/1 The water mite Neumania papillator feeds on copepods, which it locates by detecting water vibrations. < as lemmas |
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