| 单词 | oil beetle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoil beetle oil beetle n. any of various slow-moving, flightless beetles of the genus Meloe and related genera (family Meloidae), which exude an oily liquid when alarmed, produce numerous larvae which exhibit hypermetamorphosis, and are brood parasites of wild bees. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Heteromera > family Meloidae > genus or member of genus Meloe meloe1650 May-worm1658 oil beetle1658 oil-clock1658 proscarab1668 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1016 In English it may fitly be called the Oyl-beetle, or the Oyl-clock. 1879 J. Lubbock Sci. Lect. 43 A small parasite..on one of the wild bees was the larva of the oil-beetle. 1990 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia II. 284/3 An oil beetle genus common in both Europe and North America is Meloe. < as lemmas |
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