| 单词 | burying-beetle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasburying-beetle burying-beetle n. a clavicorn beetle, which excavates the ground beneath the dead bodies of mice, moles, and other small quadrupeds, so as to bury them as a nidus for its larvæ. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Staphylinoidea > family Silphidae > member of (burying beetle) burying-beetle1803 carrion-beetle1815 necrophagan1842 scavenger-beetle1854 'burying-sylph- 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 211 The Burying Beetle. 1818 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. ix. 258 The burying-beetle (Necrophorus Vespillo, F.) inters the bodies of small animals. 1883 J. G. Wood in Good Words Dec. 762/1 Burying Beetles, with their orange and black-banded bodies. < as lemmas |
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