| 单词 | whirligig beetle |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhirligig beetle 4. A water-beetle of the family Gyrinidæ, esp. the common species Gyrinus natator, found in large numbers circling rapidly over the surface of the water in ponds and ditches. Also whirligig beetle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Adephaga (carnivorous beetles) > Hydradephaga (aquatic) > member of family Gyrinidae (whirligig) whirligig1713 cramp-spider1721 whirlwig1816 weaver1864 mellow bug1894 gyrinid1925 1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ Tab. iv Trochus Pyramidalis Indicus..Indian Whirligig. 1855 Poultry Chron. 3 378 The Gyrinidæ, or whirligig beetles. 1874 J. G. Wood Insects Abroad 69 The Gyrinidæ, or Whirligig Beetles, of foreign countries.. being scarcely larger than our familiar British species. 1877 F. P. Pascoe Zool. Classif. 110 Gyrinus (Whirlgig). < as lemmas |
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