单词 | looping caterpillar |
释义 | > as lemmaslooping caterpillar That forms loops. looping-snail, a snail of the genus Truncatella. looping caterpillar = looper n.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [adjective] > other methods of retiary1658 Tuscan1830 looping1854 the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [adjective] > annular > forming loops looping1854 loopy1856 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > family Littorinidae > member of genus Truncatella looping-snail1854 1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 175 The end of the long muzzle is also frequently applied, as by the looping-snails (Truncatellæ), and used to assist in climbing. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. i. 5 The vale is spread over with looping waters. 1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. x. 95 The polypes..are capable of crawling about by a motion similar to that of the looping caterpillar. < as lemmas |
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