单词 | adonis blue |
释义 | > as lemmasAdonis 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. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Lycaenidae > genus Polyommatus > member of Adonis1795 Argus1824 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. < as lemmas |
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