| 单词 | boat insect |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboat insect boat insect n. now rare a predatory water boatman of the family Notonectidae; cf. boatfly n. ΚΠ ?1796–8 Encycl. Perthensis IV. 87/1 Boat insect, see Notonecta. 1861 G. Wilson & A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes x. 289 The Statice clustered along the banks of a sulphury pool, in which numerous boat-insects were paddling about. 1948 Brit. Bee Jrnl. 76 87/1 Other names are ‘water bug’, ‘boat fly’, ‘boat insect’ and ‘boatman’. < as lemmas |
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