pillwormとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• pill worm, pill-worm

語源

From pill +‎ worm.

名詞

pillworm (plural pillworms)

1. (rare) Any myriapod which rolls up for protection; a galleyworm.
   • 1904, Alexander Bathgate, Dunedin and Its Neighbourhood: A Short Account of Its ..., page 68:

     Another one (Armadillo rugulosus) is endowed with the power of rolling itself up in a ball like the "pill-worm" of the Old Country

   • 1956, Mysore Agricultural Calendar and Year Book, Mysore (India:State). Dept. of Agriculture, page 151:

     Objects of the Scheme:—(1) To produce intra hissutum and hissutum barbadense hybrids (F₁₁) possessing resistance to blackarm, red leaf blight and pillworm besides having economic and agronomic values and suitable for growing as such or by budding on perennial of stocks.

   • 1961, African Violet Magazine, volume 15, page 71:

     The PILLWORM is restless, aggressive, and nearly as destructive as, though more sophisticated than, the APHID.

   • 1972, Irwin Stambler, Shorelines of America, page 37:

     The high beach inhabitants include different kinds of periwinkles, a burrowing worm called the pill worm, and the beach hoppers that often parade along the beach in great numbers in early morning or twilight.

   • 1984, Suzanne Morris, Galveston, page 408:

     an event which happened years earlier had eaten away at the parish in his charge as a pillworm eats at a plant.

参考

• pill bug

参照

• pill millipede on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “pillworm”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “pillworm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.