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单词 adonis blue
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Adonis blue
4. In full Adonis blue. A small Eurasian lycaenid butterfly, Polyommatus bellargus (formerly Lysandra adonis), the male of which has vivid sky blue wings with white margins.
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1795 W. Lewin Insects Great Brit. 80 Adonis. Linnæus. Clifden Blue. Harris.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough viii. 103 There fair Camilla takes her flight serene, Adonis blue, and Paphia silver-queen.
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (ed. 2) I. ii. 42 Is it a thing to be lamented that some of the Spitalfields weavers occupy their leisure hours in searching for the Adonis butterfly?
1861 All Year Round 1 June 230/2 The delicate blues of the Mazarine and Adonis.
1869 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip Nov. 243/1 Another small but brilliant blue butterfly (L. Adonis) bears three vernacular names, viz., the ‘Adonis Blue’, the ‘Cliefden [sic] Blue’ and the ‘Dartford Blue’.
1907 Countryside 15 June 84/3 Of all the little ‘blues’ which flicker about the countryside in summer, the..Adonis blue is the most brilliant.
2000 National Trust Mag. Spring 57/3 At Spyway Farm alone..thousands of Adonis blue butterflies thrived because grazing cattle have kept the vigorous grass short for centuries.
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