英语词汇“vegetable caterpillar”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

vegetable caterpillar n. any of several kinds of caterpillar (esp. those of the porina moth of New Zealand and moths of the Asian genus Thitarodes) when invaded and deformed by a fungus of the ascomycete genus Cordyceps while pupating underground; cf. vegetable fly n.

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vegetable caterpillar1842

1842 Sydney Morning Herald 20 Dec. 2/3 The vegetable caterpillar is in abundance.

1843 E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. II. 363 Hotete—a caterpillar, the so-called vegetable caterpillar.

1905 E. L. M. White My N.Z. Garden 56 It is called the Vegetable Caterpillar. The specimens that I have seen were large, dead Caterpillars, with apparently the root of a shrub protruding from the region of the tail.

1984 A. K. Walker Miller’s Common Insects N.Z. 7 Porina caterpillars are also destroyed by diseases, the most notable of which are various species of Cordyceps fungus which convert their victims into the so-called ‘vegetable caterpillars’.

2010 Express & Echo (Exeter) (Nexis) 27 May 16 The 2003 outbreak of SARS in Asia saw an increase in demand for vegetable caterpillars for their medicinal value.

单词	vegetable caterpillar
释义	> as lemmas vegetable caterpillar vegetable caterpillar n. any of several kinds of caterpillar (esp. those of the porina moth of New Zealand and moths of the Asian genus Thitarodes) when invaded and deformed by a fungus of the ascomycete genus Cordyceps while pupating underground; cf. vegetable fly n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > miscellaneous types > miscellaneous types of caterpillar vegetable caterpillar1842 1842 Sydney Morning Herald 20 Dec. 2/3 The vegetable caterpillar is in abundance. 1843 E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. II. 363 Hotete—a caterpillar, the so-called vegetable caterpillar. 1905 E. L. M. White My N.Z. Garden 56 It is called the Vegetable Caterpillar. The specimens that I have seen were large, dead Caterpillars, with apparently the root of a shrub protruding from the region of the tail. 1984 A. K. Walker Miller’s Common Insects N.Z. 7 Porina caterpillars are also destroyed by diseases, the most notable of which are various species of Cordyceps fungus which convert their victims into the so-called ‘vegetable caterpillars’. 2010 Express & Echo (Exeter) (Nexis) 27 May 16 The 2003 outbreak of SARS in Asia saw an increase in demand for vegetable caterpillars for their medicinal value. extracted from vegetableadj. < as lemmas
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