单词 | white grub |
释义 | > as lemmaswhite grub white grub n. the larva of any of various beetles, esp. chafer beetles, spec. when used as a fishing bait or regarded as a pest of grasses; also with unchanged plural.In quot. 1496 perhaps the larva of a scarabaeid dung beetle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > genus Melolontha > larva of cockchafer white grub1496 whitebait1681 ton1693 turk1712 rook worma1722 white worm1724 earth-lard1801 grass grub1854 1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. i.ij In Iune the codworme & the bayte on the osyer and the whyte grubbe in ye dunghyll. 1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum iv. 32 The one found or bred mellow, resty, heathy, sandy, light soils..(and is call'd the Earth-bob, white-grub or white-bait,) and is a Worm as big as two Maggots. 1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling i. iii. 13 The Earth-Bob or White-Grub is a Worm with a red Head. a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) I. 77 The white-grub has..extensively injured meadows and pastures. 1929 R. A. Wardle Probl. Appl. Entomol. ii. xviii. 447 The principal insect problems of forage crops in the area [sc. Australia] concern the grasshopper Chortoicetes terminifera, the White Grub or Grass Root Beetle, Scitala pruinosa, and the Lucerne Flea. 2013 T. L. Watschke et al. Managing Turfgrass Pests (ed. 2) iii. 260 This stressed turf may be less tolerant of white grub or mole cricket feeding on the roots. < as lemmas |
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