| 单词 | melon volute |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmelon volute 2. Conchology. More fully melon shell, melon volute. Any of various large, smooth-shelled volutes of the tropical Indo-Pacific, esp. of the genera Melo and Cymbium; the shell of such a volute. Also called bailer-shell. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Volutidae > shell of member of genus Cymbium melon shell1776 bailer shell1908 1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. x. 194 None have a pillar or columella lip; though in some, as the Persian Crowns and Melons, the columella or pillar itself is wrinkled or pleated. 1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 200 Voluta Æthiopica. White-mouth'd Melon. 1840 W. Swainson Treat. Malacol. 100 The pre-eminently typical volutes, or melon-shells. 1840 W. Swainson Treat. Malacol. 99 The truncated and wide-mouthed helmet-shells, among the Muricidæ, find their prototypes in the melon volutes. 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. iv. 149 Some name them [sc. bailer shells]..the ‘boat’, and again the melon shell. 1936 T. C. Roughley Wonders of Great Barrier Reef 111 One of the largest and most interesting of the univalves..inhabiting the waters of the Great Barrier Reef is the bailer- or melon-shell. 1971 B. R. Wilson & K. Gillett Austral. Shells 138/1 The shells are popularly known as Melons or Balers, and for sheer size they have few equals among living gastropods. < as lemmas |
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