| 单词 | oak pruner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoak pruner oak pruner n. U.S. (now rare) a longhorn beetle of the genus Anelaphus (family Cerambycidae) whose larvae pupate inside twigs which they have severed from hickory, basswood, or oak trees, esp. A. villosus or A. parallelus; a twig-pruner. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Cerambycidae > elaphidion villosum (twig-pruner) oak pruner1819 twig-pruner1928 1819 Mass. Agric. Repository & Jrnl. 5 308 From the effect of its labours, it may be called the oak pruner. 1862 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1861: Agric. 615 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (37th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 39) V The black and white oak trees are infested with..the ‘Oak~pruner’. 1926 F. Shreve Naturalist's Guide Americas 470 Among the smaller animals such forms as..the oak pruner (Elaphidion villosum) are common to this region. 1961 Soviet Soil Sci. 367/1 During the first (Cerambycidae) stage of wood destruction the sapwood of the oak stumps was found to be populated by the oak pruner larva. < as lemmas |
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