| 单词 | red louse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred louse red louse n. any of various lice, plant lice, mites, etc., of a reddish colour; cf. red mite n. ΚΠ 1804 Crit. Rev. 1 514 The red lice which infest the gills of this fish are an invariable proof of its goodness and high flavour. 1837 W. Hone Every-day Bk. II. 817/1 Destroy the devouring race of red lice that breed in their crevices and corners [sc. of bird cages]. 1864 18th Ann. Rep. Ohio State Board Agric. 1863 143 Late oats were injured by a red insect, called by farmers ‘red lice’. 1912 W. C. O'Kane Injurious Insects xxv. 375 Commonly they are spoken of as the ‘little red lice’, as distinguished from the bluish sucking lice. All are members of the genus Trichodectes. 2007 D. Egonsson Preference & Information 58 Suppose..that while eating your Danish sausage someone insisted on telling you..how it received its lovely red colour (by the means of dried and crushed red lice). < as lemmas |
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