| 单词 | seven-spot ladybug |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseven-spot ladybug seven-spot adj. having seven spots or markings; esp. in seven-spot ladybird (or seven-spot ladybug), a common and widespread ladybird (beetle), Coccinella septempunctata, having red elytra marked with seven black spots.Cf. seven-spotted adj. ΚΠ 1766 M. Harris Aurelian 75 Seven Spot Ermine... I received this Moth with many others, from a friend in Yorkshire. 1830 J. Rennie Insect Transformations ii. 35 The garden white butterfly (Pontia Brassicæ) lays a group of yellow ones [sc. eggs] on a green cabbage or colewort leaf, but not of so bright a yellow as those of the seven-spot ladybird (Coccinella Septempunctata). 1999 B. Indge Dict. Biol. 167 The seven-spot ladybug..tends to be found on a much wider range of plants where it eats slightly larger aphids. 2016 K.-L. Du & M. N. S. Swamy Search & Optimization by Metaheuristics xv. 252 Seven-spot ladybirds are effective predators of aphids and other homopteran pests. < as lemmas |
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