| 单词 | cuckoo-spit insect |
| 释义 | > as lemmascuckoo-spit insect 1. A frothy secretion exuded by certain insects, in which their larvæ lie enveloped on the leaves, axils, etc. of plants; the insect chiefly producing it in Great Britain is the Frog-hopper, Aphrophora spumaris, or cuckoo-spit insect. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > member of family Cercopidae (spit-insects) > frothy secretion wood-sear1585 cuckoo-spit1592 cuckoo-spittle1646 toad-spittle1658 spring-frotha1722 toad-spit1751 froth-spit1753 frog spittle1811 frog-spit1823 cuckoo-froth1872 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. B3 Loiall Lauendar..full of Cuckoe-spits. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Froth spit, or cuckow spit..very common in the spring, and first months of the summer, on the leaves of certain plants. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xxi. 415 While still in the pupa state it is called cuckoo-spit, from the mass of froth in which it envelopes itself. < as lemmas |
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