| 单词 | cochineal-insect |
| 释义 | > as lemmascochineal-insect 3. The insect ( Coccus cacti) which produces this dye; more fully cochineal-insect. 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 > coccus cacti (cochineal) cochineal1697 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. xi. f. 261 The chiefe Merchandizes that come from Mexicana into Europe are..Cochenilles, to die with. 1602 N. Breton Poste with Madde Packet Lett. I. sig. D3v I haue sent you likewise, a Tunne of Cuchiniles.] 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World viii. 228 The Cochineel is an Insect, bred in a sort of Fruit much like the Prickle Pear. 1730 W. Rutty Cochineal in Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 268 The Curious may be now assured of a Thing which has been very uncertain for so many Years, that the Cochineals were really little Animals. 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane ii. 63 Thus cochinille Feeds on the Indian fig. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. i. 71 The principal care which is required in rearing the Cochineals. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 344 The cochineal insect is small, rugose, and of a deep mulberry colour. < as lemmas |
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