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

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

Nothing now was wanting to Dr. Ritter, except monasteries and convents, for which pious mites were already beginning to be collected, and the bishop's mitre of Breslau.

From John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch by Anonymous

In almost every instance it will be recognised that the fish's head is represented as of the same form as the modern bishop's mitre.

From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Inman, Thomas