| 单词 | noah's ark shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasNoah's Ark shell 2. A small bivalve mollusc, Arca noae (family Arcidae), found in the Mediterranean and off the Atlantic coast of Africa and southern Europe, having a ribbed rectangular shell likened to a boat, and attached within crevices by means of a byssus; a shell of this. Also Noah's Ark shell. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Arcade > member of Noah's Ark1713 sot's cap1713 ark-shell1854 1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ 2/1 Chama Noachina, Noahs Ark. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Noah's ark shell,..the name of a kind of sea shell [etc.]. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Noah's-ark, the Arca Noæ of Linnæus, a species of the Arkshell. 1854 A. Catlow Pop. Conchol. (ed. 2) 279 The Arca Noæ or Noah's Ark and several other species like it in form and character. 1882 Standard 26 Sept. 2/2 A near ally of the mussel, the Mediterranean Noah's Ark shell. 1945 E. Step & A. L. Wells Shell Life (new ed.) 62 The Common Noah's Ark..is a quaint little yellow and brown box-like shell of distorted aspect that loves to spend its time in the crevices of rocks. 1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) xiii. 274 Linnaeus established the genus Arca with many species, one of them, popularly known as the ‘Noah's Ark shell’, being named by him Arca noae. 1982 Macdonald Encycl. Shells No. 137 Arca noae. Noah's Arc. < as lemmas |
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