| 单词 | oysterscalp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoyster-scalp oyster-scalp n. [ < oyster n. + scalp n.2] chiefly Scottish = oyster bed n. (a). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Pectinidae > genus Pecten > member of scallopc1440 oyster-scalp1552 clam1593 escallop1610 queen1803 quin1840 squin1864 queen scallop1955 queenie1972 magnificent scallop1990 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Oyster scalph, ostrifer. 1803 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife (new ed.) ii. ii. 93 (note) Around this little island..there are several oyster scalps. 1862 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 503 There used to be great battles between the men of Newhaven and the men of Fisherrow, principally about their rights to certain oyster-scalps. oyster-scalp A bank providing a bed for shellfish, esp. oysters and mussels; an oyster or mussel bed or colony. (Often mussel-scalp, oyster-scalp.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > member of (oyster) > oyster bed scalp?15.. oyster bed1591 oyster bank1612 layer1667 oyster-lay1703 oyster-laying1761 oyster bar1823 laying1837 oyster park1862 oysterage1866 oyster field1868 lay1902 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Mytilidae > member of (mussel) > mussel bed mussel beda1450 mussel scalp1496 scalp?15.. mussel bank1634 lay1902 ?15.. Aberd. Reg. (Jam.) The scawip of mussillis & kokilliss. 1521 Aberdeen Reg. (1844) I. 98 Nane of the mussillis..now begingin to gader one ane now skap at the northt watter, besyd the Cunningar hillis. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Muskleskalp. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Oyster scalph, ostrifer. [Cf. Elyot Dict., Ostrifer, the place in the sea, whiche is apte to ingender oysters.] 1557 in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Court Admiralty (1897) II. p. lxvii Mussel scalfe. 1587 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) 488 To caus brek the swame of the mvssill scalp in the heavin of Leyth. 1593 Minutes of Culross Council To be given to George Bruer for the ancarage and mussel-scalp. 1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ iii. 279 Avis hæc the Scaup~duck dicta est, quoniam scalpam [ Ray (1678) 365 Scaup] i.e. pisces testaceos fractos seu contritos esitat. 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VIII. 461 A scalp of a small kind of mussels. 1862 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 503 There used to be great battles between the men of Newhaven and the men of Fisherrow, principally about their rights to certain oyster-scalps. 1879 H. Stevenson in R. Lubbock Fauna Norfolk Mem. 15 The sandy flats and mussel-scalps of that portion of the coast. 1882 Standard 26 Sept. 2/1 Boston Deep, which is admirably suited for mussel culture, returns, now that the ‘scalps’ are protected, over 5000l. per annum. 1896 J. H. Crawford Wild Life Scotl. 271 The punt lingered opposite the mud flats, or mussel-scaups exposed by the tide. < as lemmas |
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