banded hickory borer

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词形变化

banded hickory borers 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A species of brown longhorn beetle (Knulliana cincta) with orange patterns, found in the southern United States, certain northern areas of Mexico, and the Bahamas.

词源

From banded + hickory + borer. "Banded" is from a partial calque of translingual Knulliana cincta (“banded Knulliana”).

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