| 单词 |
coccid |
| 释义 |
coccid, a. and n. Ent.|ˈkɒksɪd|
[f. mod.L. Coccidæ, a family of insects.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Coccidæ or scale-insects.
B. n. A scale-insect.
1892W. L. Distant Naturalist in Transvaal 88 The Coccid, or so-called ‘Australian Bug’ (Icerya purchasi). 1894Athenæum 16 June 778/1 Male specimens of a coccid (Lecanium prunastri), bred from scales attached to shoots of blackthorn. 1899Kew Bull. 6 Attacks of Coccids on forest trees in the island of Rodrigues. 1913Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 4 June 948/2 The Coccid food of the larva of Spalgis lemolea. 1920J. Ritchie Anim. Life Scot. 474 A Coccid on oranges. 1960L. Picken Organiz. Cells iv. 97 Other instances of haploid chromosome numbers of one or two occur in a coccid, Icerya and a spider beetle (Ptinidae). Ibid. 136 A non-specific attraction that leads to end-association of the two chromosomes of a coccid sperm.
Hence cocciˈdology, the scientific study of scale-insects.
1904Science 25 Mar. 501 In the present state of coccidology. |
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