| 单词 | motherofpearl oyster |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmother-of-pearl oyster mother-of-pearl oyster n. see sense A. 2. mother-of-pearl oyster 2. A shellfish yielding mother-of-pearl. Cf. nacre n. 1. Also mother-of-pearl shell, mother-of-pearl oyster. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > that produces mother of pearl mother pearl1593 nacre1598 mother-of-pearl1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 255 The shell that is the mother of Pearle [Fr. la mere perle]. 1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick ix. xii. 241 There are..shells, we call the Mothers of pearl. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 209 Which..may hint us the reason of that so much admired appearance..in mother of Pearl-shells. 1703 J. Petiver Musei Petiveriani ix-x. 81 The Sea-Ear, Mother of Pearl, and by some Normans or Norman Shell. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 610/1 The margaritiferus, or pearl-bearing mussel... This is the mater perlarum of Rumphius, or mother of pearl shell. 1802 Brookes' Gazetteer (ed. 12) at Pelew Isl. The best knives are made of a piece of the large mother-of-pearl oyster. 1852 H. W. Dulcken tr. I. L. Pfeiffer Visit Holy Land, Egypt, & Italy xvi. 257 I saw whole cargoes of mother-of-pearl shells carried away. 1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 588/2 Mother of pearl, the shells of the large bivalve mollusc Meleagrina margaritifera. 1956 E. Gunther tr. A. Krause Tlingit Indians vi. 127 Pieces of mother of pearl (haliotis)..come from the south. 1999 E. M. Beekman tr. G. E. Rumphius Amboinese Curiosity Cabinet ii. xxxvii. 220 The 9th kind..is known to us as the Mother-of-Pearl Shell: I saw one of these in Dr. d'Aquet's Cabinet, about a foot across. < as lemmas |
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