bishop's mitre

British  

noun

1. a European heteropterous bug, Aelia acuminata , whose larvae are a pest of cereal grasses: family Pentatomidae

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Example Sentences

The church replaced it after the American Revolution with what is called a bishop’s mitre, which represented the shift from the Church of England to the Episcopal Church.

From Washington Times • Mar. 28, 2019

The pectoral fins can be cut away from the head and moulded into a headdress resembling a bishop's mitre.

From Time Magazine Archive

They wore red sleeves, white aprons, and a cap like a bishop's mitre over their golden hair.

From The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales by Patten, William

The valve on the left side, called the mitral, from its fancied resemblance to a bishop's mitre, consists of two folds which close together as do those of the tricuspid valve.

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

Close at hand rose the Watzmann, a soaring pyramid whose summit was cleft into two sharp peaks inclined into some semblance of a bishop's mitre.

From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall