单词 | red-bug |
释义 | > as lemmasred-bug red-bug n. U.S. any of various small reddish insects or mites; spec.: †(a) a cotton stainer (genus Dysdercus) (obsolete); (b) a chigger or harvest mite (genus Trombicula). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Siphonaptera or fleas > [noun] > pulex or sarcopsylla penetrans (chigoe) nigua1555 chigoe1708 pique1748 red-buga1750 jigger flea1756 trigera1757 sand flea1796 tungua1815 a1750 W. Gibson New Treat. Dis. Horses (1751) i. 97 They [sc. beans] breed a kind of vermin, which the farmers call a red Bug, and is reckoned dangerous. 1804 D. M’Kinnen Tour Brit. W. Indies x. 171 The red bug..has stained the cotton so much in some places this year as to render it of little or no value. 1827 J. L. Williams View W. Florida 29 Red bugs are numerous, especially in mossy woods. 1856 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1855: Agric. 104 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (34th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 12) VI The ‘red-bugs’, or..‘cotton-stainers’, generally make their appearance about August. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Bête-rouge,..probably a larval Trombidium, which in the West Indies corresponds to the so-called ‘red bug’ or ‘jigger’ of the southern United States. 1985 A. Wilkinson Moonshine 132 Garland said that they were chiggers, also called red-bugs. < as lemmas |
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