| 单词 | predaceous |
| 例句 | In nature it is kept in check by various predators such as ladybugs, a gall midge, predaceous mites and several pirate bugs, all of them extremely sensitive to insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Just because you’ve called something a spider once doesn’t mean that the next time you have to call it an arachnid or a predaceous eight-legged creepy-crawly. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though Coronodon is only known from a skull, that fossil reveals a mammal that mixed the features of earlier, more predaceous whales and the baleen whales that would follow. Paleo Profile: The Crown Tooth 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Several families of bugs are predaceous in habit, attacking other insects—often members of their own order—and sucking their juices. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z They are predaceous in habit, live largely on living animal matter, and are very quick in their movements. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z And predaceous beetles and other strong-jawed insects with a fondness for helpless, soft-bodied, juicy grubs would like to gnaw into the houses. Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z It is preyed upon by the larger predaceous fishes of fresh waters, and owing to its silvery appearance is a favourite bait in pike-fishing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z As is the case with most predaceous birds, the female is larger and bolder than the male, and will attack birds superior to herself in size. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Man, then, by the position of his eyes belongs to the predaceous animals. Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes 2011-10-14T02:00:28.840Z The larva and the active pupa or nymph are aquatic and are predaceous, as is also the adult. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z Many of the wasps are predaceous, and destroy numerous insects to feed their larvæ. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z The very large assemblage of forms coming under this order comprises the most highly developed predaceous sea-snails, numerous vegetarian species, a considerable number of freshwater and some terrestrial forms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Thousands of large and small predaceous birds followed the flames, and fell now and then in them. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z One might imagine the shock that a bird, or other predaceous enemy, would experience when looking upon this grinning mask. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z The larval and nymphal stages are passed in the water and aquatic vegetation furnishes the food, although some species may be predaceous. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z The Chilian proper is a very poor creature as regards morals, intelligence, or true manhood; his instincts are brutal and his aims predaceous. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z I presume, therefore, that they are conscious of some insecurity, and it would certainly appear that their heads would otherwise be open to the attack of rats or other predaceous animals. Addresses & Papers / Collectanea 2011-08-04T02:00:22.097Z Thus the decadence of these higher fish begins with the incoming of the reptiles, just as the decadence of the higher Mollusks and predaceous Crustaceans began with the incoming of the fishes. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z It must shelter itself from birds, spiders, predaceous beetles, and many other enemies. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z Fe�lid�, animals of the cat kind, a family of Carnivora in which the predaceous instincts reach their highest development. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Many insects are simply predaceous, pouncing upon and destroying such other insects as they can overcome. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z Bold, predaceous animals generally have the concavity of this organ directed forward, while in timorous animals, like the rabbit, it is directed backward. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers Some of them were aquatic, and with limbs rudimentary or little developed, but many of them walked on the land, and were powerful and predaceous creatures. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z This preponderance of predaceous beetle material is what might be expected from the manner in which crows feed. Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas With the possible exception of one West African dolphin, all the Cetacea are predaceous, subsisting on living animal food of some kind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" The most destructive are the predaceous and parasitic insects. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z Many of these corpses are instantly devoured by predaceous fish, sometimes before they reach the bottom; still more frequently when they rise again to the surface, and float in a state of putrefaction. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The more typical forms live altogether on recently-killed warm-blooded animals, and their whole organization is thoroughly adapted to a predaceous mode of life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" However, destruction of predaceous beetles is harmful to the farmers' best interests. Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas He can stand calm and unflinching in the path of a charging grizzly, and he can confront with equal coolness and determination the predaceous corporations and money powers of the country. Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt How is the happy and innocent state of man consistent with the contemporaneous existence of carnivorous and predaceous animals, which, as both Scripture and geology state, were created in abundance in the sixth day? The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Now the Diprotodon was a kind of ferocious kangaroo, carnivorous and predaceous, which lived in the Tertiary Period and had a skull three feet in length. Seeds of Pine Protective resemblance is far commoner among animals than aggressive resemblance, in correspondence with the fact that predaceous forms are as a rule much larger and much less numerous than their prey. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Other beetles were classified as predaceous or non-predaceous according to the type of mandibles found. Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas The common asparagus beetle has very efficient checks in the shape of predaceous insects, which prey upon its larvæ and assist in preventing its undue increase. Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history The devouring tannin is a huge predaceous river reptile, a fit emblem of the Babylonian monarch; the tan is the jackal that will soon howl in his ruined palaces. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science All the world knows him for a predaceous bird, and that his heart is a fierce furnace. Seeds of Pine The beetles are hairy and their larvae well-armoured and often predaceous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Many predaceous ground beetles of the family Carabidae would be found under rocks and clods and on the ground. Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas The hope that the faithful companion in misfortune had not fallen a victim to the predaceous beasts pleased Stas so much that he gained more courage. In Desert and Wilderness We have seen how, in the succession of marine forms, there would be something like a progress from the lower to the higher: bringing us in the end to predaceous molluscs, crustaceans, and fish. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I It is not alone the parasitic and predaceous insects which are beneficial. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer They are admirably adapted for moving through the soil, where some of them live on decaying organic matter, while others are predaceous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" The plants when matured are better able to withstand the onslaughts which these predaceous insects make upon them. The Story of the Cotton Plant Some mosquito larvæ are predaceous, feeding on the young of other species or on other insects. Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases They might be expected to make their appearance along with the predaceous crustaceans; as they do in the uppermost Silurian rocks. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I Fastened to his clout were four awful exhibits of his predaceous success—four scalps. A Virginia Scout The beetles are fierce in nature and predaceous in habit, their sharp toothed mandibles being well adapted for the capture of small insect-victims. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" She was an honest woman with a religious oneness of aim, and such are not the ladies for predaceous holluschickies. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers The predaceous aquatic larvæ of many insects feed freely on wrigglers. Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Pete often expressed the opinion that no predaceous creature, from a spider up to a cougar, will attack its prey while the latter is immovable. The Black Wolf Pack We should have to depend upon a few predaceous beetles, the bats, and upon the sprayers and squirtguns which throw insecticides. Bird Day; How to prepare for it There are the reactions of anger made to any threat or injury, fear, the predaceous impulse and habit, originating in hunger, the motives arising in sexual rivalry. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History Fortunately weather conditions together with parasitic and predaceous insects hold them more or less in check. Apple Growing It is interesting to note that the larvæ of some mosquitoes are themselves predaceous and feed freely on the other wrigglers that may chance to be in the same locality. Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases It is only among marine animals that we find predaceous types of such gigantic size. Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections On the contrary, the predaceous cephalopods and the highly organized crustaceous are among the oldest fossils. An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges The last instance that I shall cite is a predaceous spider which is disguised from both its enemies and its prey by an elaborate combination of form, color, position, and character of web. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. The word "attempt" is used advisedly, because, owing to the exposed situations in which nests are built, large numbers of eggs and young bulbuls are destroyed by boys, cats, snakes and other predaceous creatures. A Bird Calendar for Northern India The older invaders such as the Yüeh-chih had been favourably disposed to Buddhism, but those who came later, such as the Huns, were predaceous barbarians with little religion of any sort. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 The largest predaceous quadrupeds living today are the lion and tiger. Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections In one section of the order, however, the Adephaga comprising the predaceous terrestrial and aquatic beetles, the larval foot has, like that of the adult, two claws. The Life-Story of Insects Thousands of these infinitesimal specks are devoured before they hatch out by predaceous fish; thousands more of the young fry are swallowed alive during their helpless infancy by the enemies of their species. Science in Arcady During their young life they fall a prey to many predaceous fishes, such as sharks, also to the larger gulls, and only a small percentage of the original brood attains its majority. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 The conflict was a bloody one; the venerable gander on which the soldier laid his predaceous hands had nearly deprived him of his nose with its bill, hard and sharp as a tailor's shears. The Downfall There are few large quadrupeds in the country, and so far as we could learn none of these are predaceous. A Trip to Venus The large and gaudy bunch of feathers, silk and tinsel with which salmon, very large trout, black bass and occasionally other predaceous fish are taken is not, strictly speaking, a fly at all. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Will you give up this continent, territory, Free States and all, to our predaceous, blood-eating system? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Among the warrior and predaceous insects the prowess is in some cases of such type as to render the possessor practically immune from danger. Through the Brazilian Wilderness In the girls there is a less general prevalence of a predaceous interval in the development; and in the cases where it occurs, the predaceous and isolating attitude during the interval is commonly less accentuated. Theory of the Leisure Class Hart dissected the stomach of a woman of thirty which resembled the stomach of a predaceous bird, with patches of tendon on its surface. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine He contrasts them with the worldly passions as we find these embodied in the predaceous military character, altogether to the advantage of the latter. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature One of these is predaceous, brutal; the other ideal, humane. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 It was so that the gregarious animals had overcome the predaceous; it was so, in human history, that the people had mastered the kings. The Jungle A homely and familiar fact may serve to show that the predaceous impulse does not prevail in the same degree in all classes. Theory of the Leisure Class They partake of the predaceous and destructive character of the adjoining sub-typical group, and the means of their predacity are generally found in the mouth alone. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation But latent in that move were all the terrible possibilities of the tiger, the alligator, the wolf and all the varieties of predaceous beast and plant, parasitism and slavery. The Glands Regulating Personality These servants of a predaceous principle are nearly, if not quite, its earliest prey. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 The species increases far beyond the powers of predaceous birds or beasts to check, and the Rabbits after 7 or 8 years of this are multiplied into untold millions. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake In girls the transition to the predaceous stage is seldom accomplished with the same degree of completeness as in boys; and in a relatively large proportion of cases it is scarcely undergone at all. Theory of the Leisure Class For Roth surmised that both these plants were, in their way, predaceous. Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism Repeated episodes of subjugation and suppression mixed with countless incidents of predaceous cupidity and rapacity have made Man what he is today. The Glands Regulating Personality Hydrophobia will bite, small-pox infect, plague enter upon life and depart upon death, hyenas scent the new-made graves, and predaceous systems of society open their mouths ever and ever for prey. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Look at his picture there,—large, strong features on a small face and head,—no blank spaces; all given up to expression; a high predaceous nose, a sinewy brow, a massive, benevolent chin. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers For the purposes of economic theory, these further barbarian traits may be taken as concomitant variations of that predaceous temper of which prowess is an expression. Theory of the Leisure Class It is certainly most remarkable that this family of plants, wherever met with, and under the most diverse conditions and modes of life, should always in some way or other be predaceous and carnivorous. Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism It is the dead Chopin, but the nose is that of a predaceous bird, painfully aquiline. Chopin : the Man and His Music To this predaceous system what do we oppose? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 It is supposed to have been predaceous and marsupial. The Student's Elements of Geology This aphorism offers a valuation of the predaceous temperament, and of the disciplinary effects of its overt expression and exercise, as seen from the moralist's point of view. Theory of the Leisure Class The felled timber attracts lignivorous insects, and these draw in their train the predaceous species of various families. The Naturalist on the River Amazons Thus was a graminivorous animal nurtured by a carnivorous and predaceous one! The Natural History of Selborne The two barbarian traits, ferocity and astuteness, go to make up the predaceous temper or spiritual attitude. Theory of the Leisure Class It is as ancillary to the predaceous impulse proper that the belief in luck expresses itself in a wager. Theory of the Leisure Class |
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