| 单词 | fire beetle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfire beetle fire beetle n. a firefly; spec. a click beetle of the genus Pyrophorus, of the warmer parts of the Americas and the Caribbean, esp. the widespread P. noctilucus (cf. cucuy n.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Elateridae > elaterid fire-fly fireworm1567 cucuy1605 salamander-fly1668 lightning bug1778 firebug1789 glow-fly1789 fire beetle1826 lightning beetle1854 meadow-fly1867 pyrophore1884 1826 First of May in R. P. Gillies German Stories III. 46 It was already dark night, and fire-beetles hovered round them with their silent green light. 1842 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects New Eng. 49 Elater (Pyrophorus) noctilucus, the night-shining Elater, is the celebrated cucuio or fire-beetle of the West Indies. 1954 F. C. Lane All about Insect World 112 A number of rather small ‘fire beetles’ are fairly common in this country. But there is a much larger species in the tropics. 1998 BioScience 48 3 (heading) Unique sense organs allow fire beetles to locate their hot breeding grounds. < as lemmas |
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