| 单词 | gold-lip shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgold-lip shell gold lip n. a (variety of) very large pearl oyster having a golden lip to the shell, Pinctada maxima (also attributive, as gold-lip shell, gold-lip oyster, etc.); (also) the shell of such an oyster, used as currency in parts of Melanesia.Cf. black-lip adj. and n., silver-lip n. at silver n. and adj. Compounds 2a.The lip colour of P. maxima ranges from gold to silvery-white and is dependent on such factors as water temperature and the presence of certain sediments and plankton. ΚΠ 1893 Rep. 4th Meeting Australasian Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1892 615 Pearl shell is found there... Some of it, the ‘black lip,’ is good, but not of the best kind, while the ‘gold lip’ is of good quality. 1901 Proc. Gen. Meetings Zool. Soc. 377 Margaritifera maxima... The large white Mother-of-Pearl shell of Australian, Papuan, and Malayan waters, ‘Silver-lip’, ‘Gold-lip’, &c. 1931 Phillipine Jrnl. Sci. 45 325 Spherical shell beads..were introduced into the soft parts between the mantle flaps of 2-year-old gold-lip oysters. 1958 P. Hallard Coral Reef Castaway iv. 57 (caption) His hand closed over the Gold Lip and he tried to lift it. 2004 Human Ecol. 32 146 Successful men... are described as having six to ten female pigs, two or three gold-lip shells (mamaku), and several wives. < as lemmas |
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