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单词 horn-bug
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horn-bug
horn-bug n. a North American beetle, Passalus cornutus, having its head armed with a stout curved horn.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > member of family Passalidae (horn-bug)
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1775 J. Trumbull MʽFingal 31 Thinks hornbugs bullets, or thro' fears Muskitoes takes for musketeers.
1837 Southern Lit. Messenger 3 587 I am an unfortunate victim..of every species of insect..the horn-bug, gad fly, dragon-fly [etc.].
1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks xxvii. 341 You're saucy enough to physic a horn-bug.
1899 Mem. Amer. Folk-lore Soc. 7 63 Horn-bugs, May-bees, May-flies, [etc.].
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