英语词汇pupa的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pupa. The great naturalist Linnaeus coined this technical term for “an insect in the third and usually quiescent state pre- ceding that of the perfect insect.” Pupa comes from the Latin pupa, “little girl or doll.” The coinage has been called “a stroke of poetic genius,” one writer noting: “If you look at the under- side of a moth’s pupa [you will] see the shape of its face, eyes and embryonic wings like little arms, all wrapped as if in swad- dling clothes which emphasize its likeness to a doll.” See larva.

词汇	pupa
词源	pupa. The great naturalist Linnaeus coined this technical term for “an insect in the third and usually quiescent state pre- ceding that of the perfect insect.” Pupa comes from the Latin pupa, “little girl or doll.” The coinage has been called “a stroke of poetic genius,” one writer noting: “If you look at the under- side of a moth’s pupa [you will] see the shape of its face, eyes and embryonic wings like little arms, all wrapped as if in swad- dling clothes which emphasize its likeness to a doll.” See larva.
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