| 单词 | chinese wax |
| 释义 | > as lemmasChinese wax b. A substance resembling beeswax secreted or produced by various species of scale-insects. Sometimes called Chinese wax. Also, ‘the product of some other homopterous insects’ ( Cent. Dict.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Coccidae or genus Coccus > substance secreted pela1754 wax1803 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 269 To their [the larvæ of the cicada] labours the Chinese are indebted for the fine white wax that is so much esteemed in the East-Indies. They form a sort of white grease which attaches to the branches of trees, hardens there, and becomes wax. 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. x. 328 In China wax is also produced by another insect, which..seems to be a species of Coccus. 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. x. 331 Early in the spring vast numbers of these caterpillars [of Phalæna ceraria] collect on the branches of the Chila, where they form their cells of a kind of soft white wax or resin... This wax, which is at first very white, but by degrees becomes yellow and finally brown, is collected in autumn by the inhabitants, who boil it in water, and make it up into little cakes for market. 1852 W. Gregory Handbk. Org. Chem. (ed. 3) 247 Chinese Wax. 1876 Westwood in Trans. Entomol. Soc. London 521 Now this ‘cottony’ covering was doubtless formed of the wax secreted by the Fulgora. 1899 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. ii. 575 A great many [of the Fulgoridæ] have the curious power of excreting large quantities of a white flocculent wax. 1899 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. ii. 597 Ceroplastes ceriferus, a Lecaniid, produces white wax in India... The white wax of China is understood to be produced by another Lecaniid, Ericerus pela. < as lemmas |
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