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单词 scare-sleep
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scare-sleep

English

Noun

scare-sleep (plural scare-sleeps)

  1. An insect, the lantern fly (Fulgora laternaria).
    • 1806, Stedman, John Gabriel, Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America, volume 2, page 38:
      The other was a large fly, which Madam Merian, who gives a drawing of it, calls the vielleur, but which I have generally heard called the scare-sleep by the Dutch.
    • 1828, Kirby, William; Spence, William, “On the Noises Produced by Insects”, in An Introduction to Entomology, volume 2, page 397:
      The great lantern-fly (Fulgora laternaria), from its noise in the evening—nearly resembling the sound of a cymbal, or razor-grinder when at work—is called Scare-sleep by the Dutch in Guiana.
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