| 单词 | web-spinner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasweb-spinner web-spinner n. (a) a web-spinning spider; (b) any of the gregarious insects constituting the small mainly tropical order Embioptera, having a narrow flexible body and living in tunnels and chambers of silk fastened to rocks, trees, or leaf litter. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > web-spinning or sedentary spinnerc1220 web-worker1658 silk-spider1728 sedentary1815 web-spinner1825 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order embioptera > member of (web-spinner) web-spinner1825 1825 ‘E. Hardcastle’ 29th May I. ix. 272 The wily web-spinner—he is more fiendish than a hairy spider. 1923 Jrnl. & Proc. Royal Soc. Western Austral. 9 i. 61 The Order Embioptera, or Web-spinners, is a small but very distinct and isolated group of insects. 1941 J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man ix. 193 In the spiders, we find a very interesting difference between the hunters and the web-spinners. 1944 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 94 401 (title) A revision of the Embioptera, or web-spinners, of the New World. 1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. vi. 85 Embiids or Webspinners..occur mostly in the tropics and subtropics. 2001 G. C. McGavin Essent. Entomol. 133 Web spinners are pale or dark-coloured, gregarious or subsocial insects. < as lemmas |
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