英语词汇“fire coral”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

fire coral n. any of several yellow or brown colonial hydrozoans of the genus Millepora (family Milleporidae; cf. millepore n.), having a calcified skeleton that resembles coral and capable of inflicting painful stings. [Apparently so called in allusion either to the flame-like shape and bright yellow colour of some colonies, or to their capacity to sting. Compare Arabic šaʿb al-nār , lit. ‘tribe of the fire’, denoting corals of the genus Millepora (inaccurately cited as a generic term for bushy corals in P. Forsskål Descriptio animalium(1775) p. xxviii, the source referred to in quot. 1941).]

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1941 Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 1 12 This [identification] is not correct, the name, meaning ‘Fire coral’, being given to Millepora, which stings like a nettle if it touches tender skin, like that of the inner side of the arm.]

1952 J. Cleugh tr. H. Hass Under Red Sea 208 Fire-coral: Millepora species.

1953 J. Cousteau Silent World xi. 115 Two important living enemies of undersea man are fire coral and sea poison ivy, which inflict burns that may last for days.

2009 D. Fenner in C. R. C. Sheppard et al. Biol. Coral Reefs ii. 35 Fire corals..reproduce by producing tiny medusae which are released from blisters and which in turn release the gametes.

单词	fire coral
释义	> as lemmas fire coral fire coral n. any of several yellow or brown colonial hydrozoans of the genus Millepora (family Milleporidae; cf. millepore n.), having a calcified skeleton that resembles coral and capable of inflicting painful stings. [Apparently so called in allusion either to the flame-like shape and bright yellow colour of some colonies, or to their capacity to sting. Compare Arabic šaʿb al-nār , lit. ‘tribe of the fire’, denoting corals of the genus Millepora (inaccurately cited as a generic term for bushy corals in P. Forsskål Descriptio animalium(1775) p. xxviii, the source referred to in quot. 1941).] ΚΠ 1941 Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 1 12 This [identification] is not correct, the name, meaning ‘Fire coral’, being given to Millepora, which stings like a nettle if it touches tender skin, like that of the inner side of the arm.] 1952 J. Cleugh tr. H. Hass Under Red Sea 208 Fire-coral: Millepora species. 1953 J. Cousteau Silent World xi. 115 Two important living enemies of undersea man are fire coral and sea poison ivy, which inflict burns that may last for days. 2009 D. Fenner in C. R. C. Sheppard et al. Biol. Coral Reefs ii. 35 Fire corals..reproduce by producing tiny medusae which are released from blisters and which in turn release the gametes. extracted from firen.int. < as lemmas
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