ladybird

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The public reporting system that was introduced to monitor the ladybird is regarded by researchers as an outstanding success and they now intend to use it to find out how climate change is affecting other insects.

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  1. noun See ladybug.

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  • But hands at windpipes would be mild in comparison with what might happen after the duke had heard all about his ladybird, he reflected, beginning to speak. —  Mary Balogh - The Secret Pearl
  • Sense and Sensibility lay neglected on her lap while she debated whether his new ladybird was an actress or an opera dancer and whether her eyes were blue or brown or even green like Alexandra's own. —  Loretta Chase - The English Witch
  • I grow her a Fish-interface from my symbiote as a birthday present: it looks like a ladybird. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • That strange journey south with a bright bird of plumage, whom he had mistaken for a ladybird with a vivid imagination. —  0001
  • She was unmistakably no ladybird, but no one would know who exactly she was—until he presented her as his countess. —  Mary Balogh - Unforgiven
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  1. from lady, with reference to “Our Lady,” i. e. the Virgin Mary, + bird; prob. orig. as a variant of ladybug.
 

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