单词 | snake doctor |
释义 | snake doctor (once / 984943 pages) n WORD FAMILY snake doctor: snake doctors USAGE EXAMPLESSnake doctors, limber, long insects with bronze bodies and filmy wings, went back and forth like small living shuttles. Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury), The Escape of Mr. Trimm—His Plight...(2010) What child is there that is not familiar with the insect commonly known as the dragon-fly, snake doctor or snake feeder? Haseman, Leonard, An Elementary Study of Insects(2010) Down South the colored people believe the dragon fly brings dead snakes to life, and they call it snake doctor. Morley, Margaret Warner, The Insect Folk(2010) n slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. Syn|Hyper darning needle, devil's darning needle, dragonfly, mosquito hawk, sewing needle, skeeter hawk, snake feeder odonate large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings |
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