| 单词 | frog-spit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrog-spit frog-spit n. now rare (a) = cuckoo-spit n.2 1; (b) U.S. filamentous freshwater algae; cf. frogspawn n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > member of family Cercopidae (spit-insects) > frothy secretion wood-sear1585 cuckoo-spit1592 cuckoo-spittle1646 toad-spittle1658 spring-frotha1722 toad-spit1751 froth-spit1753 frog spittle1811 frog-spit1823 cuckoo-froth1872 the world > plants > particular plants > algae > [noun] > floating on surface of water frogspawn1741 pond scum1864 frog-spit1892 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 96 Cuckoo-spit, the delicately white frothy matter seen in early spring on certain wild flowers... We as often call it Frog-spit, and Snake spit. 1879 Folk-lore Rec. 2 82 The cuckoo-spittle, gowk's-spittle, cuckoo's spittens, frog-spit, toad-spit, snake's-spit, or wood-sear of England and Scotland. 1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 5 106 Spirogyra and allied confervaceae, frog-spit. 1926 Sci. Monthly Apr. 330/1 This plant, the ‘water-silk’, ‘mermaid's tresses’, known also by the less poetic and still less truly descriptive names ‘pond-scum’ and ‘frog-spit’. 1945 W. L. McAtee Nomina Abitera 6 The term frog-spit [is] applied to the floating masses formed chiefly by filamentous algae. 1965 E. Richardson Living Island 82 Coarse weeds bend under frog-spit, the foam manufactured by a tiny spittle insect to hide him from seeking birds. < as lemmas |
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