| 单词 | devil's cow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdevil's cow ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > member of (beetle) > black black-beetle1565 twitch-ballock1634 devil's cow1688 straddle-bob1847 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 213/1 They are generally known to us; by the name of blind Beetles and Devils cows. 1736 G. Harbin in Somerset & Dorset Notes & Queries (1893) 3 182 It is said that Hedgehogs chiefly feed upon those large black insects called in Somersetshire the Devil's Cows. 1859 Trans. Philol. Soc. 94 In Somersetshire a certain elongated black member of the family of an unquestionably forbidding appearance is called the Devil's-cow, and in various counties the..Devil's-coach-horse. 1889 Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Field Club 10 28 Devil's cow:—A flat kind of beetle. 1903 C. L. Daniels & C. M. Stevans Encycl. Superstitions, Folklore, & Occult Sci. II. 613/2 There is a beetle in Devonshire and Somersetshire, called the devil's cow; and if you spit on its head, your saliva will turn to blood. < as lemmas |
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