| 单词 | ant cow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasant cow ant cow n. any of various aphids or scale insects that are tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew that they expel. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis cantharidesa1398 blackfly1652 greenflya1680 green louse1682 green bug1704 collier1742 puceron1744 plant louse1763 aphis1771 leaf louse1774 smother-fly1785 tree-louse1797 ant cow1875 aphid1884 stilt-bug1895 1833 Insects & their Habitations (Soc. Promoting Christian Knowl.) 54 (heading) Ants' cows.] 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 98/1 The Coccidæ in America take the place of the European aphides as ant-cows. 1996 T. A. Scott tr. F. W. Stöcker et al. Conc. Encycl. Biol. 70/2 The European jet ant (Lasius fuliginosus) and related species of Lasius exploit aphids, which are then popularly known as ‘ant cows’. < as lemmas |
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