| 单词 | pandora shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspandora shell Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the genus Pandora or family Pandoridae, typically having one flat valve and one convex one (resulting in a shape likened to the soundbox of a stringed instrument). Also pandora shell. ΚΠ 1833 T. Brown Conchologist's Text-bk. 137 Pandora rostrata, the beaked pandora... Inhabits the Mediterranean and British seas. 1901 E. Step Shell Life ix. 173 The Pandora-shell (Pandora inæquivalvis) not only has the valves unequal, they are inequilateral also. 1935 J. Keep West Coast Shells (rev. ed.) xv. 128 Pandora (Heteroclidus) punctata Conrad, the Spotted Pandora, is a rare shell of very unusual shape, somewhat oblong and beaked. 1952 P. A. Morris Field Guide to Shells Pacific & Hawaii 25 Pandora Glacialis Leach. (Northern Pandora)... Pandora Punctata Conrad (Dotted Pandora). 1994 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 346 207/2 The nine stalked eyes around the siphon of the Pandora shell Laternula truncata are as sophisticated as scallop eyes but they lack a reflector. < as lemmas |
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