| 单词 | pea-bug |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspea-bug pea-bug n. colloquial (a) = pea weevil n. (a); (b) a woodlouse (cf. pill bug n. at pill n.3 Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Bruchiidae or Lariidae > member of genus Bruchus > bruchus pisi (pea weevil) pea-bug1757 pea beetle1777 pea weevil1796 pea-chafer1882 1757 L. Carter Diary 22 Aug. (1965) I. 169 It grows like unto the pea bugg which being a later embrio is to be seen in the green pea a Small blackish speck and appears to be perforated through the pod. 1790 Pennsylvania Packet 30 Mar. 1/4 Damage to crops by insects, especially the Hessian-fly,..the pea-bug, and the corn chinch-bug or fly. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 114 Pea-bug, the wood-louse. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 11 May 3/1 Another horror has supervened in the shape of a pea bug..which attacks market gardens. 1922 D. H. Lawrence Fantasia of Unconscious vi. 43 Morning, with rain in the sky, and the forest subtly brooding, and me feeling no bigger than a pea-bug between the roots of my fir. 2003 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 13 Jan. 19 In three neighbouring villages [in Wiltshire], the humble insect [sc. the woodlouse] had three different names, and others included ‘old granfers’, ‘sowbugs’ and ‘peabug’. < as lemmas |
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