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ichneumon
/ ɪkˈnu mən, -ˈnyu- /
📖毕业后词汇
一氧化碳
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ichneumon
的定义
n.
名词
noun
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
.
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ichneumon
例句
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
.