单词 | scopa |
释义 | scopan.1 Entomology. A bundle or tuft of bristly hairs on the legs of bees, used for collecting pollen; a pollen-brush. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > pollen basket on leg > pollen-brush scopa1802 pollen brush1840 1802 W. Kirby Monogr. Apum Angliæ I. 109 Scopa. This term, which is used by Schrank to denote another part, to which I have given its diminutive [i.e. scopula] as a name, I have adopted to signify the thick coat of hairs which externally covers the posterior tibiæ of many of these insects, by means of which they probably brush the pollen from the flowers. 1840 J. O. Westwood Introd. Mod. Classif. Insects II. 260 The other instruments consist of bundles of hairs, whence they have been termed the scopa or scopula by Mr. Kirby, ‘la brosse’ by the French, and which we may call the pollen brushes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2018). scopan.2 rare. An Italian card game. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1965 ‘W. Haggard’ Hard Sell iii. 26 There were cafés and men inside them. They were playing scopa. 1977 Time 3 Jan. 40/3 Premier Giulio Andreotti's Christmas gift to his staff last week was a single playing card—the seven of diamonds, which in the Italian game of scopa is worth double and thus is considered the luckiest card in the deck. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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