1823, said to have been discovered on the coast of the Pacific northwest of North America during Cook's third expedition and so-named by the sailors, "from its striking resemblance to a large spider when it first appears above the surface, before the stem begins to rise from the spherical arrangement of the leaves, or the flagellae begin to creep to any distance from among them to the soil around" [Peter Sutherland, "Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay," 1852]; from spider + plant (n.).
双语例句
1. The spider must wait for prey to be ensnared on its web.
蜘蛛必须等待猎物被它的蛛网困住。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.
绒毛蛛猴是美洲最大的灵长类动物。
来自柯林斯例句
3. the geometry of a spider's web
蜘蛛网的几何形状
来自《权威词典》
4. to be caught in a spider's web of confusion
陷入混乱不堪的局面
来自《权威词典》
5. A spider had spun a perfect web outside the window.
