| 单词 | welsh wave |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWelsh wave Welsh wave n. a northern geometrid moth, Venusia cambrica, with pale wings marked with wavy brown lines, and caterpillars that feed on the leaves of rowan ( Sorbus aucuparia).The species was originally named and described from Wales, but it has a wide Holarctic distribution. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Hydriomenidae > various members of satin pug1809 Welsh wave1852 satyr-pug1869 1852 W. Wood & J. O. Westwood Index Entomologicus (rev. ed.) 260 Cambrica The Welsh Wave. 1917 Sc. Naturalist Sept. 230 I detected two examples of the ‘Welsh Wave’ (Venusia cambrica) at rest on the trunk of an oak. 1994 A. Fowles in J. L. Davies & D. P. Kirby Cardiganshire County Hist. I. i. vi. 93 [In 1839] John Curtis described the Welsh Wave as a species new to science from a specimen collected at Hafod. < as lemmas |
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