单词 | wax-insect |
释义 | > as lemmaswax-insect wax-insect n. an insect producing wax; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by habits or actions > that produces wax wax-insect1815 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. x. 329 This account is in the main confirmed by Geomelli Careri, except that he calls the wax-insect a worm which bores to the pith of certain trees. 1857 R. Fortune Resid. among Chinese 147 The wax-insect tree is no doubt a species of ash (fraxinus). 1881 Globe Encycl. VI. 484/1 The Hemipterous family Coccidæ includes the chief wax insects, familiarly known as bark lice. < as lemmas |
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