单词 | joint-worm |
释义 | joint-wormn. 1. A tape-worm; as consisting of a series of joints. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Platyhelminthes > [noun] > class Cestodes > member of joint-worm1706 taenia1706 tapeworm1752 cestoid1837 lark-worm?1842 cestode1864 caseworm1906 1706 S. Centlivre Basset-table iii. i. 29 'Tis the Joint-Worm, which the Learned talk of so much..or Vulgarly in English the Tape-Worm. 2. U.S. The larval form of several species of chalcid flies belonging to the genus Harmolita (or Tetramesa), which forms galls near joints on grain stems, causing them to bend. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Parasitica > member of superfamily Chalcidoidea > larva of genus Harmolita or joint-worm joint-worm1851 1851 Southern Planter (Richmond, Va.) July 197/2 Joint worm has injured White Flint most, Early Purple Straw next, and Mediterranean least. 1851 A. Fitch in Cultivator VIII. 322/1 I first observe, lying upon the infested stalk, the insect to which you allude in your letter, as perhaps having been hatched from the joint-worm. 1852 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects New Eng. (ed. 2) 443 The ravages of the joint-worm in the wheatfields of Virginia are said to have been first observed in Albemarle county, about four or five years ago. 1862 Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. (1865) 488 The real, veritable ‘joint-worm’ of Virginia and Maryland. 1882 Illinois Entomol. Rep. XI. 81 I have obtained another specimen of this species from a gall in a stalk, produced evidently by the regular joint-worm. 1918 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1006. 2 This jointworm can be controlled in Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky by plowing down wheat stubble deeply after harvest. 1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. xxi. 537 The Rye Jointworm, T[etramesa] secale, occurs in eastern U.S., westward to Utah and Alberta. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1706 |
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