| 单词 | white admiral |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite admiral white admiral n. (more fully white admiral butterfly) [compare admiral n. 5] a Eurasian nymphalid butterfly, Limenitis camilla, which has black wings with conspicuous white bands; (in later use also) any of several other butterflies of the genus Limenitis having a similar appearance, esp. Limenitis arthemis of North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Nymphalidae > subfamily Ithomiinae > genus Limenitus > limenitus camilla (white admiral) white admiral1717 ?1703 J. Petiver Gazophylacii II. 24 The White Legorn Admiral. Mr. Robert Barklay..brought me this first from Legorn, since which it was caught in London.] 1717 J. Petiver Papilionum Britanniæ Icones 1/2 White Admiral. Found about Dullidge and Wickham near Croyden, as also at Henly upon Thames. 1871 Trans. Entomol. Soc. London 345 Sibylla is, it is now admitted, the male name for our White Admiral Butterfly, and Camilla the female, both names being given by Linnæus. 1922 V. Woolf Jacob's Room ii. 36 He had seen a white admiral circling higher and higher round an oak tree, but he had never caught it. 2001 C. S. Guppy & J. H. Shepard Butterflies Brit. Columbia 315/1 White Admirals occur throughout the northern and central interior of BC south to the northern Okanagan Valley, mostly in deciduous and mixed forests. < as lemmas |
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