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单词 calicrat
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calicratn.

Etymology: apparently < Callicrates, name of a Greek artist celebrated for his minute ivory carvings of ants and other small animals (Pliny N.H. vii. xxi. §21, ‘Callicrates ex ebore formicas et alia tam parva fecit animalia ut partes eorum a ceteris cerni non possent’).
Obsolete.
An ant.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant
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calicrat?1590
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?1590–1 J. Burel Passage of Pilgremer i, in Poems sig. N4 The Calicrat, that lytle thing, Bot, and the hony Bie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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