| 单词 | water scorpion |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater scorpion water scorpion n. any of various predatory heteropteran water bugs of the genus Nepa and related genera of the family Nepidae, having a flat oval body, raptorial forelegs, and a long posterior breathing tube resembling a tail. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > family Nepidae > member of water scorpion1668 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. 123 Water Scorpion. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Scorpion Water Scorpion, scorpio palustris,..is a very thin and light little creature, yet is but a very slow mover. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iv. i. 226 The Grey Nepa (Nepa Cinerea, Linn.), commonly called Water Scorpion or Water Spider. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiii. 313 The water-scorpion (Nepa cinerea ) may carry the minute bivalve Sphaerium which has closed its shell on the insect's hind-feet. 2002 Water Gardener July 97/2 Newts, backswimmers and water scorpions are all partial to the odd tadpole. < as lemmas |
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