单词 | pectinid |
释义 | pectinidn.adj. Zoology and Palaeontology. A. n. A marine bivalve mollusc of the family Pectinidae; a scallop. ΚΠ 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Pectinidae Pectinid, n. 1938 Jrnl. Conchol. 21 81 (heading) New subgenus and genus of Tertiary pectinids. 1956 Systematic Zool. 5 143/1 I am most likely to pick up each fossil shell and say to myself, ‘a pectinid, a venerid, an astartid, a cardiid’, and so on. 1996 Science 15 Mar. 1606/2 These Paleogene–Neogene pectinids had large (>5 cm) thick shells. B. adj. Of, relating to, or designating the family Pectinidae of marine bivalve molluscs. ΚΠ 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. at Pectinidae Pectinid, n. & adj. 1951 Jrnl. Paleontol. 25 231 (heading) On the type of Pseudamussium and other notes on pectinid nomenclature. 1962 Systematic Zool. 11 97/2 The studies of Newell..on shell structures in pectinid and mytilid molluscs. 1994 Paleobiology 20 299/2 Robison..hypothesized that agnostids moved through the water by clapping the cephalon and pygidium together, much as pectinid bivalves clap their valves to swim. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1895 |
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