汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 螽斯
螽斯
katydid or long-horned grasshopper (family Tettigoniidae)
①虫名。体长寸许,绿褐色。雄虫的前翅能发声,雌虫尾端有剑状的产卵管。②《诗经》篇名。篇中以螽斯喻子孙众多,后因多作为称颂之语螽斯衍庆。饣(食)部
zhōng
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

螽斯趋声行为的定量分析表明,螽斯具有良好的方向听觉能力。

Quantitative analyses on phonotactic behavior of the bushcricket demonstrate that the bushcricket possesses good capability to determine direction of sound source.

夜晚开花的植物则会勾来飞蛾、蟋蟀、螽斯和小型哺乳动物。

Night bloomers are visited by moths, crickets, katydids, and small mammals.

此类兴象多取于桃、苡、花椒、兰、枣、瓜等早实多子植物和鱼、螽斯等多子动物。

These images cover such plants and animals as peaches, Chinese prickly ashes, melons, fishes, worms and so on.