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单词 earth-flea-beetle
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earth-flea-beetle
earth-flea n. [in sense (a) after German Erdfloh (1719 in the passage translated in quot. 1731 for earth fly n.)] Obsolete (a) a flea beetle (family Chrysomelidae); also more fully earth-flea-beetle; (b) = earth fly n. (b) (rare).Sense (b) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1768 T. Nugent Trav. Germany II. 274 The plentiful watering of cole plants every day, is the only sure method against the earth-flea.
1814 W. Johnston tr. J. Beckmann Hist. Invent. (ed. 2) IV. 276 When sown late in the season, they were injured by the earth-flea.
1840 J. Loudon & M. Loudon tr. V. Köllar Treat. Insects II. 141 Shade, coolness, and rainy weather, are the surest protection of young plants from the attacks of the earth-flea-beetles.
1889 Cent. Dict. Earth-flea, a name of the chigoe, Sarcopsylla penetrans: so called from its living in the earth.
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