单词 | kangaroo-beetle |
释义 | > as lemmaskangaroo-beetle kangaroo-beetle n. a beetle with enlarged hind-legs, esp. one belonging to the genus Sagra. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > miscellaneous types > member of family Sagridae (kangaroo-beetle) kangaroo-beetle1839 1839 J. O. Westwood Introd. Mod. Classif. Insects I. 214 A South American insect, figured long since by Francillon, under the name of the Kangaroo Beetle..in which the size of the hind legs is still more extraordinary. 1883 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 348 The large brilliantly-metallic Sagræ, or Kangaroo-beetles of tropical Asia and Africa. < as lemmas |
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