† burst-cown.
Obsolete.
= burn-cow n. at burn- comb. form 2, an old name for the buprestis n.
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 177 [Insects] pernicious unto cattell, as the Buprestis or burstcow . View more context for this quotation
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1000 I..adventure to call it by a new name in English, Burncow, or Burstcow.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Buprestis The Burn-cow, Burst-cow, or Blain-worm.
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