| 单词 | date-shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdate-shell date-shell n. a date mussel; (also) the shell of this. 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 1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth v. 40 While we offer to God as good payment, we do with the profane traueller thinke to please him with empty date-shelles. 1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 266 The ‘date-shell’ bores into corals, shells, and the hardest limestone rocks. 1924 C. E. R. Bucknill Sea Shells of N.Z. 90 Lithophaga truncata... Commonly known as the Date shell, this species is a rock-borer. 1999 A. Davidson Oxf. Compan. Food 245/2 The date-shell is not a mechanical borer. It makes its hole in the rock by applying to it an acid secretion. < as lemmas |
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