英语词汇“owl butterfly”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

owl butterfly n. any very large dusk-flying American nymphalid butterfly of the subfamily Brassolinae, esp. one of the genus Caligo, having a large eyespot on the underside of each hindwing.

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1881 Scribner's Monthly Mar. 819/1 The eyed-spot, or ocellus..is most effective where it appears alone as the most conspicuous..ornament upon its ground, as in the owl-butterfly.

1884 J. S. Kingsley Standard Nat. Hist. (1888) II. 489 C. eurylochus or the ‘owl-butterfly’..being common throughout South America.

1972 L. E. Chadwick tr. W. Linsenmaier Insects of World 198/2 This genus [sc. Caligo] is a representative of the purely South American family of the Brassolidae, or owl butterflies.

1994 Observer 19 June (Life Suppl.) 55/3 Numbers of owl-butterflies appeared—each as big as a spread hand, with blue-eyed grey wings—and landed silently on our shoulders and legs.

单词	owl butterfly
释义	> as lemmas owl butterfly owl butterfly n. any very large dusk-flying American nymphalid butterfly of the subfamily Brassolinae, esp. one of the genus Caligo, having a large eyespot on the underside of each hindwing. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > miscellaneous types white1766 rocket1832 leaf butterfly1838 morpho1853 owl butterfly1881 map butterfly1894 1881 Scribner's Monthly Mar. 819/1 The eyed-spot, or ocellus..is most effective where it appears alone as the most conspicuous..ornament upon its ground, as in the owl-butterfly. 1884 J. S. Kingsley Standard Nat. Hist. (1888) II. 489 C. eurylochus or the ‘owl-butterfly’..being common throughout South America. 1972 L. E. Chadwick tr. W. Linsenmaier Insects of World 198/2 This genus [sc. Caligo] is a representative of the purely South American family of the Brassolidae, or owl butterflies. 1994 Observer 19 June (Life Suppl.) 55/3 Numbers of owl-butterflies appeared—each as big as a spread hand, with blue-eyed grey wings—and landed silently on our shoulders and legs. extracted from owln. < as lemmas
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