| 单词 | pretty widow |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspretty widow pretty widow n. now historical and rare (more fully pretty widow moth) the netted pug, Eupithecia venosata, a Palaearctic geometrid moth with pale brown or cream wings covered in a black and white lattice pattern. ΚΠ 1781 in Proc. Royal Entomol. Soc. London (1933) B. 8 102 Brought some Non-Descript Moths which were named as under... The Silver Cloud, a Noctua [and the] Pretty Widow, a Geometra, [both taken at Charlton, 16 May, by Mr. Honey]. 1799 E. Donovan Nat. Hist. Brit. Insects VIII. 38 Phalæna Decussata... It has been..trivially named the Pretty Widow Moth. 1832 S. Reeve Fairies' Fancy Ball 27 Eupithecia Venosata—Pretty Widow Moth. 1961 H. M. Edelsten & D. S. Fletcher South's Moths Brit. Isles (new ed.) II. 213 The Netted Pug (Eupithecia venosata Fab.) This moth has also been named by the old authors ‘the Pretty Widow Moth’. < as lemmas |
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