| 单词 | woolly bear |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswoolly bear woolly bear n. (a) colloquial (esp. children's), also dialect a hairy caterpillar; also spec. the larva of the carpet beetle; frequently attributive; (b) Military slang (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [adjective] > of larva of tiger-moth woolly bear1863 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [adjective] > of larva of carpet beetle woolly bear1863 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > hairy woubit1483 palmer1538 bear worm1577 furry1598 tailor-fly1682 woolly boy1805 tailor1816 woolly bear1863 miller1883 woolly worm1909 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [adjective] > of larva > of large or hairy caterpillar woolly bear1863 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > member of (tiger-moth) > larva or woolly bear woubit1483 woolly boy1805 woolly bear1863 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Dermestidae > member of genus Anthrenus (carpet beetle) > larva of or woolly bear woolly bear1863 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > other types of shell carcass1684 light ball1729 anchor ball1779 shrapnel1810 hollow shot1862 segment-shell1862 blind-shell1864 ring-shot1868 star shell1876 ring-shell1879 pipsqueak1900 Black Maria1914 coal box1914 crump1914 Jack Johnson1914 Archie1915 Little Willie1915 whizz-bang1915 woolly bear1915 fizzbang1916 five-ninea1918 ashcan1918 cream puff1918 sea-bag1918 pudding1919 G.I. can1929 flechette1961 1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 535 Its [sc. the Tiger-moth's] caterpillar is..familiar under the name of Woolly Bear. 1915 War Illustr. 31 July 546/2 The German high-explosive shell, known to our men by the nickname of the ‘Woolly Bear’,..detonates with a cloud of thick white smoke. 1918 H. W. McBride Emma Gees 135 ‘Woolly Bear’ is the name given to a large, high explosive shell, with a time fuse, which bursts overhead, giving out a dense black smoke. 1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War II. 82 They were drenched with a five hours' bombardment of 4.2's and ‘woolly bears’. 1940 R. G. Russell 101st Field Artillery 1917–19 94 A German 150-millimetre battery fired ‘woolly bears’, time-fuse shells, which burst too high to do any harm. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Nov. 478/3 The most common enemy of cinerarias in New Zealand is the ‘woolly-bear’ caterpillar, the larva of the magpie moth. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 324/2 Woolly bear. This is the grub of a small beetle which..congregates in hot airing cupboards. 1961 Which? July 157/1 The varied carpet beetle, often known in its larval phase as the woolly bear (Anthrenus verbasci). 1974 A. Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek xiv. 247 Woolly bears, those orange-and-black-banded furry caterpillars of the Isabella moth, were on the move. 1980 Blair & Ketchum's Country Jrnl. Oct. 28/2 October is the month when the woolly bear caterpillar, sometimes called a fuzzy-wuzzy or woolly worm, can be seen crossing country roads. 1983 Listener 27 Oct. 16/3 Our wall-to wall carpets attract the ‘woolly bear’ grubs of the carpet beetle. < as lemmas |
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