| 单词 | date fish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdate fish date fish n. [compare Italian pesce dattero (16th cent.)] North American (now rare) a bivalve mollusc that bores into rock or wood; esp. a date mussel. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Mytilidae > genus Lithodomus > member of date-shell1606 date fish1829 sea date-shell1858 1829 G. Jones Sketches Naval Life I. 81 He is now mostly employed in procuring date fish. 1884 E. Ingersoll in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 707 Some cousins (Zirphæa crispata, Platydon cancellatus, etc.) are esteemed delicacies on the coast of California under the name of ‘Date-fish’. 1898 S. R. Franklin Memories Rear-admiral xx. 240 The rock is then broken and the date-fish is removed. 1998 L. A. T. Farkas Bury my Bones Amer. iv. 28/1 (table) Bougee—date fish with mushrooms. < as lemmas |
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