单词 | red back spider |
释义 | > as lemmasred back spider In the names of animals, birds, etc.: having a red or reddish-brown back, as red back salamander, red back spider, etc.; = red-backed adj. 1. ΚΠ 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) II. App. 712 The Flusher, or red back Shrike, and the great Shrike, breeds with us. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Shrike—Red-back The Red-back shrike, or Butcher-bird, visits us in May, and departs in September. 1863 A. S. Packard in 2nd Ann. Rep. Nat. Hist. & Geol. Maine 1862 214 Lithobius..feed upon insects and earth worms, and are in turn devoured by the red back salamander. 1936 K. C. McKeown Spider Wonders Austral. xi. 152 The Red~back Spider..has adapted itself to a life in close association with man. 1963 Jrnl. Mammalogy 44 415 The red-back vole (Clethrionomys gapperi) is usually thought of as an inhabitant of the damp floor of hardwood forests and conifer swamps. 1995 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 26 June 10/6 The lethal red-back spider supposedly as Australian as the outdoor dunny it haunts may be an overseas intruder. 2002 Connecticut Wildlife Mar.–Apr. 5/3 Redback Salamander: This most common salamander can be found just about everywhere in Connecticut. < as lemmas |
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