单词 | anthophile |
释义 | anthophilen. Chiefly Entomology. An insect which is typically found on flowers, or which feeds from flowers. Sometimes also: a person who loves flowers. ΚΠ 1817 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 632/1 The Anthophiles, with the antennæ filiform, wings not folded, abdomen round, and lips short. 1907 D. M. Stauffer Amer. Engravers upon Copper & Steel I. p. xxvii Tiebout..engraved and published in London his large print of the ‘Anthophile’, after a painting by J. Green. 1922 L. O. Howard tr. E.-L. Bouvier Psychic Life of Insects x. 207 Gaston Bonnier has justly said that the true anthophiles ‘go in the greatest number where the nectar is..the easiest to collect’. 1977 Science 15 Oct. 341/1 Thorp et al hypothesize that fluorescence of exposed floral nectars acts as an attractant of zoophilous flowers for anthophiles. 1999 P. G. Kevan & H. G. Baker in C. B. Huffaker & A. P. Gutierez Ecol. Entomol. (ed. 2) iv. xvii. 556 In the Aschiza, Syrphidae (hover or flower flies) is the most important family of anthophiles. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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