单词 | wheel-bug |
释义 | > as lemmaswheel-bug wheel-bug n. a large reduviid insect ( Prionidus cristatus) of the southern United States and the West Indies, with a semicircular serrated crest suggesting a cog-wheel. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of family Reduviidae > prionidus cristatus (wheel-bug) wheel-bug1815 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. iv. 110 The wheel-bug can..communicate an electric shock to the person whose flesh it touches. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 316 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The Reduvius, or wheel-bug, is found in gardens, feeding voraciously upon caterpillars. < as lemmas |
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