| 单词 | wax-insect | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaswax-insect   wax-insect  n. an insect producing wax; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > 			[noun]		 > member of > defined by habits or actions > that produces wax wax-insect1815 1815    W. Kirby  & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. 		(1818)	 I. x. 329  				This account is in the main confirmed by Geomelli Careri, except that he calls the wax-insect a worm which bores to the pith of certain trees. 1857    R. Fortune Resid. among Chinese 147  				The wax-insect tree is no doubt a species of ash (fraxinus). 1881    Globe Encycl. VI. 484/1  				The Hemipterous family Coccidæ includes the chief wax insects, familiarly known as bark lice. < as lemmas | 
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