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单词 mellow bug
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mellow bug
mellow bug n. [with reference to the apple-like odour of the secretion produced by certain whirligig beetles] U.S. = whirligig n. 4.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Adephaga (carnivorous beetles) > Hydradephaga (aquatic) > member of family Gyrinidae (whirligig)
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1894 J. C. Harris Little Mr. Thimblefinger xii. 140 Why, I expect it is a mellow bug... I used to catch them when I was a girl and put them in my handkerchief. They smell just like a ripe apple.
1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. 351 Gyrinids exude a milky secretion..for which they have been given such names as ‘apple smellers’ and ‘mallow bugs’.
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