| 单词 | inch-worm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasinch-worm inch-worm n. a name for a geometer caterpillar, also called looper or measuring-worm; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > class of caterpillars > member of surveyor1682 looper1731 span-worm1820 geometric caterpillar1835 measuring worm1843 span-worm1852 inch-worma1861 measurer1868 loop-worm1880 a1861 T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) 123 All the green inch-worms vanish on the tenth of every June. 1881 Harper's Mag. Oct. 656/1 A wriggling inch-worm,..awaiting..an opportunity to measure the length of your nose. 1949 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 12 Mar. 33/1 One evening the Main Line local hunched its cars together like an inchworm and skidded to a halt. 1954 D. J. Borror & D. M. DeLong Introd. Study Insects xxvi. 522 The larvae of geometers are the familiar caterpillars commonly called inchworms or measuring-worms. 1959 G. Mattingly Defeat of Spanish Armada xx. 218 There was only one offset to the exasperation of this inchworm progress. 1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 235 Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl on a leaf,..Feeling for something to reach something? < as lemmas |
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