| 单词 | walking leaf insect |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswalking leaf insect 1. Any of various insects belonging to the phasmid genus Phyllium or related genera, the female of which has a flattened body and limbs with irregular outlines and markings, closely resembling a leaf. Also walking leaf insect.Early naturalists mistakenly supposed such insects to develop from the leaves of certain exotic trees: cf. quot. 1659. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > unidentified or variously identified plants > [noun] smearwortc725 evenlesteneOE hovec1000 hindheala1300 vareworta1300 falcc1310 holwort1350 spigurnela1400 rush?a1425 buck's tonguec1450 lich-walec1450 lich-wortc1450 vine-bind1483 finter-fanter?a1500 heartwood1525 wake-wort1530 Our Lady's gloves1538 bacchar1551 hog's snout1559 centron1570 lady's glove1575 sharewort1578 kite's-foot1580 Magdalene1589 astrophel1591 eileber1597 exan1597 blue butterflower1599 bybbey1600 oenothera1601 rhodora1601 shamefaced1605 mouse-foot1607 Byzantine1621 popinjay1629 priest's bonnet1685 Indian weed1687 foal-bit1706 shepherd's bodkin1706 bottle-head1714 walking leaf1718 French apple1736 bugleweed1771 night-weed1810 beggar-weed1878 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Phasmida > member of walking leaf1718 wandering1798 straw1827 1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 525 Walking leaves, Arbor foliis ambulantibus, it seemeth to creep on the ground, and being touched it will presently move it selfe.] 1718 R. Bradley New Improvem. Planting & Gardening: Pt. 3 77 There remains yet one thing relating to Insects, and their Manner of Infecting of Plants, which is so curious, and I believe so little known, that I cannot well avoid mentioning it; and that is concerning the Folium-Ambulans, or Walking-Leaf. 1826 G. Samouelle Gen. Direct. collecting Exotic Insects & Crustacea 32 This order [sc. Orthoptera] contains the Grasshopper, Locust, Mantis, Walking-leaf, and the Cricket. 1870 A. R. Wallace Contrib. Theory Nat. Select. (1871) iii. 64 In the wonderful genus, Phyllium, the ‘walking leaf’,..not only are the wings perfect imitations of leaves in every detail, but the thorax and legs are flat, dilated, and leaf-like. 1959 A. J. Pomerans tr. A. Portmann Animal Camouflage ii. iv. 44 The walking leaf differs from our other examples in that only the female, which is unable to fly, resembles a leaf. 2002 Sci. Amer. Nov. 44/2 He has reared more than 130 species of walkingstick and walkingleaf insects. < as lemmas |
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