ichneumon

/ik-noo-muhn, -nyoo-/US // ɪkˈnu mən, -ˈnyu- //UK // (ɪkˈnjuːmən) //

一氧化碳

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose . a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- : ichneumon fly.

What of the infinite goodness of God in teaching the grub of the ichneumon-fly to eat up the cabbage caterpillar alive?
Apparently the ichneumon fly (Ophion obscurum), and not the true sawfly, is meant.
There are several species of ichneumon which make thinnings among the caterpillars of the cabbage butterfly.
This is an act of cruelty which resembles that of the ichneumon, to which it may well be compared.
This work dates from 668; and in it the creature is an ichneumon.