| 单词 | partridge tun |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspartridge tun partridge tun n. see sense 4. partridge tun 4. In full partridge shell, partridge tun. An Indo-Pacific tun, Tonna perdix, whose shell has brown and white markings; also (more fully Atlantic partridge tun) a similar tun, T. maculosa, of the Atlantic coast of tropical America; the shell of either of these. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Buccinidae > genus, member, or shell of genus Dolium dolium1752 partridge tun1776 tun1837 tun-shell1889 1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 125 Numbers of sea Shells are as thin as river Shells, e.g. the Paper Nautili, Partridges, &c. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 456/1 Dolium... Cuvier has separated the species into two sections, viz. the Tuns (Dolium) and the Partridge Tuns (Perdix of de Montfort). 1890 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Partridge Partridge shell. 1951 P. A. Morris Field Guide Shells Atlantic & Gulf Coasts (rev. ed.) 176 Tonna maculosa Dillwyn (Partridge Shell)... The surface does indeed remind one of the plumage of a partridge. 1975 A. P. H. Oliver Hamlyn Guide Shells of World 140 T. perdix..the Partridge Tun... Narrow, high-spired and rather thin. < as lemmas |
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