“formica”的英英意思

单词

formica

释义

‖ formica¹|fɔːˈmaɪkə|
[L. formīca ant.]
1. Ent. The typical genus of the family Formicidæ; the ant.
1865Livingstone Zambesi ix. 190 We could not [sleep] because of the attacks by the fighting battalions of a small species of formica.1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 272 Many Hymenoptera, Formica, Cynips, also possess it.
2. A kind of abscess, ulcer, or excrescence, occurring esp. in a hawk's bill or a dog's ears.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 213 Pustule þat comeþ of humours corrupt as ignis persicus & miliaris & fformica schall be purged.1543Traheron tr. Vigo's Chirurg. ii. vi. 20 b, Formica is a lytle pustle, or many pustles that come upon the skynne..The thyrde [sygne] is pryckynge, and it is a sodayn bytyng as it were of an ante wherof it hath hys name.1614Markham Cheap Husb. (1623) 161 The Formicas in Hawkes is a hard horne growing vpon the beake of a Hawke.1674N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. ii. (1677) 248 Of the Formica. This is a Distemper which commonly seizeth on the Horn of Hawks Beaks, which will eat the Beak away.1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 225 Formica or Scab in the Ears [of a dog].

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