| 单词 | horsehair snake |
| 释义 | > as lemmashorsehair snake horsehair snake n. U.S. = horsehair-worm n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Gordiacea > member of order Gordiodea hairworm1658 horsehair-worm1753 horsehair snake1897 1897 Outing 30 434/2 The creature referred to as a mystery is what is termed the ‘horsehair snake’, in reality, a hairworm. 1949 Sci. Monthly Jan. 56/2 Another mythical serpent, confined to the rural scene, is the horsehair snake..the worm Paragordius varius. 1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. XLII. 19 Horsehair snake. Actually a long slender worm (Gordius, sp.), which spends one portion of its life in the body of a large insect and the other in shallow water, as in a watering trough. Thus arose the folk belief that these worms were originally horsehairs. < as lemmas |
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