| 单词 | red admirable butterfly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred admirable butterfly 2. More fully red admirable butterfly. = red admiral n. 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Nymphalidae > subfamily Ithomiinae > genus Vanessa > vanessa atalanta (red admiral) admiral1699 admirable1742 red admirable1798 red admiral1840 1798 E. Donovan Nat. Hist. Brit. Insects VII. 75 The White Admirable Butterfly feeds upon the common honey suckle or woodbine..; its habit is much the same as that of P[apilio] Atalanta, Red Admirable, but it is by no means so common. 1805 E. Donovan Instr. Collecting Var. Subj. Nat. Hist. (ed. 2) 20 The Papilio Atalanta (Red Admirable). 1849 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. xxxvi. 293 In one of the cabinets of Ohio insects, I saw specimens of that common English butterfly, Vanessa atalanta, or ‘red admirable’, which I had observed, in the winter, flying about in the woods of Alabama. 1936 Times 22 June 10/3 One has only to utter Red Admirable butterfly three times, or even twice, and one will hurriedly clip the words to Red (or White) Admiral. 1962 V. Nabokov Pale Fire (1963) 123 Shade used to say that its Old English name was The Red Admirable, later degraded to The Red Admiral. < as lemmas |
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