| 单词 | ant's egg |
| 释义 | > as lemmasant's egg ant's egg n. the small white pupa (or larva) of an ant, often used as food for fish, birds, etc.; usually in plural; cf. earlier ant egg n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > ant eggs ant's egg1495 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > larva(e) ant eggeOE ant's egg1495 ant worm1747 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xix. xciv. sig. ll.vijv/1 Amptes egges [a1398 BL Add. 27944 empte eiren] ben ful lityll..yf in ony wyse they ben remeuyd..the amptes gadreth theim & beeryth theym ayen to theyr neest. 1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things viii. 198 If you stampe Ants egges, & strayne them through a cloath, and put therevnto the iuyce of Swynes grasse, or Knot grasse, and distyll it into the eares: it helpes a long continewed deafnes. 1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 427 In the Morning they bring up those of their Young (that are vulgarly call'd Ants Eggs) towards the top of the Bank. 1730 T. Boreman Descr. Three Hundred Animals iv. 209 A Bee is first an Egg..not so long nor big, as an Ant's Egg. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 61/1 To collect the cocoons (popularly and erroneously called ants'-eggs) in quantity as food for nightingales and larks. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiii. 260 These white pupae, popularly and badly called ‘ants' eggs’, are, of course, the chrysalid stage between the grub (or larva) and the fully formed adult. 2002 J. Reese Bk. Shadows 380 It was the mentioning of ants' eggs that prompted old Inez to stand. < as lemmas |
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