单词 | aurelia |
释义 | aurelian. 1. Entomology. The chrysalis or pupa of an insect, esp. of a butterfly. (Now scarcely in use, chrysalis being the ordinary term.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > pupa or chrysalis nymph1577 nympha1601 aurelia1608 chrysalis1658 puppet1671 pricket1707 pupa1770 chrysalid1777 pupe1819 naiad1918 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > member of (butterfly) > chrysalis aurelia1608 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 108 All Catterpillers are not conuerted into Aureliaes. 1667 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities (ed. 2) Then Aurelia's (or husked Maggots), and then Butterflies. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. viii. v. 409 They then retire to Places of Safety..and put on their Aurelia or Chrysalis-state. 1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 154 An intermediate period of apparent death as an inert aurelia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > everlasting or immortelle yellow amaranth1551 gold-flower1578 mothwort1578 God's flower1597 golden cudweed1597 golden mothwort1597 moth-weed1597 aurelia1598 everlasting flower1610 everlasting1633 helichrysum1664 yellowheads1712 immortal herb1731 xeranthemum1736 eternal flower1785 immortelle1832 strawflower1924 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes [Aurelia, the herb called Mothweede, or golden Floweramour, or golden Stœchados or Cudweede], Eliocriss, the gold flower or herbe Aurelia. 3. Zoology. A genus of phosphorescent marine animals of the class Acalephæ. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > genus Aurelia aurelia1876 1876 P. J. Van Beneden Animal Parasites & Messmates 33 Alex. Agassiz once found a Hyperina on the disc of an Aurelia. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1598 |
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