| 单词 | witch's horse |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswitch's horse witch's horse n. †(a) a wolf (obsolete rare); (b) any of various insects, esp. a stick insect; cf. devil's horse n. (b) at devil n. Compounds 3d.Quot. 1865 is apparently an isolated literary archaism in imitation of Norse and Old English kennings. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf) wolfc725 greyOE Isegrima1300 grey wolf1595 lupus?a1600 witch's horse1865 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Phasmida > family Phasmidae walking stick1760 leaf insect1795 spectre1798 stick insect1826 spectrum1838 phasmid1864 stick bug1868 twig insect1882 witch's horse1894 1865 C. Kingsley Hereward xx, in Good Words June 414/1 The silence was broken by a long wild cry from the forest... It was the howl of a wolf. ‘Hark to the witch's-horse!’ 1894 Harper's Mag. Feb. 456 [The walking stick insect] which the country people near Salem, Massachusetts..call ‘witches' horses’. 1994 Bulletin (Yorks. Naturalists' Union) 21 17 In Italy and among the Dakota Indians, the insects are known as a witch's animal, hence Witch's Horse, and as witches are the devil's creatures, then it follows that the dragonfly is the devil's animal. 2005 News–Press (Fort Myers, Florida) (Nexis) 15 May (Tropicalia Mag.) 6 r Anisomorpha buprestoides... Variously known as the devil's riding horse, prairie alligator, stick bug, witch's horse, devil's darning needle, scorpion, and musk mare, the twostriped walking stick is one of about 2,000 species in the world. < as lemmas |
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