| 单词 | yellow underwing moth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow underwing moth yellow underwing n. (more fully yellow underwing moth) any of various noctuid moths (genus Noctua) having bright yellow patches on the hindwings; frequently with distinguishing word. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > member of subfamily Catocalinae (underwing) > yellow underwing yellow underwing1720 1720 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Eng. Insects Descr. Pl. lxxii The 10th of June came the Moth commonly called the yellow under Wing. 1882 Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. Scotl. 14 96 Triphæna pronuba (the Great Yellow Underwing Moth)... The body and wings are a dull brown or ochreous colour, and the under wings of a bright orange colour. a1941 V. Woolf Death of Moth (1942) 9 The commonest yellow-underwing asleep in the shadow of the curtain. 1997 Shetland Times 10 Oct. 23/2 Although lesser yellow underwing is a common enough noctuid in Shetland it is not a species I see at all often. 2008 C. R. Adams et al. Princ. Hort. (ed. 5) 215 The larvae of the yellow underwing moth..live in the soil, nipping off the stems of young plants and eating holes in succulent crops. < as lemmas |
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