单词 | animal moss |
释义 | > as lemmasanimal moss ΚΠ 1858 New Eng. Farmer Mar. 124/1 In the order of Worms, the Tube-worm, Sand-tape, &c., and in the Polypi, were the Animal Moss and the Sea Anemone. 1869 H. M. Hart tr. C. H. B. A. Moquin-Tandon World of Sea xvii. 172 The structure raised by the polypi is termed..a polypidom; and, on the same principle of nomenclature, ‘animal moss’ is a polyzoary. 1920 J. Rithcie Infl. Man on Animal Life in Scotl. vii. 414 More serious were the growths of ‘Leitungsmoos’—plant-like colonies of animal moss or Polyzoa, which in Antwerp were found to form all round the inside of a..pipe a coat nearly 10 cm. (over 4 inches) thick. < as lemmas |
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