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单词 pelican's foot
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pelican's foot
pelican's foot n. (more fully pelican's foot shell) a marine gastropod mollusc of the family Aporrhaidae, esp. Aporrhais pespelecani, having a long conical spire and a flared outer lip with four finger-like projections; (also) the shell of this mollusc.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > member of family Aporrhaidae
pelican's foot1815
key of the sea1854
1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 202 [Strombus] Pes Pelicani. Pelican's Foot.
a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) 214 We can trace..not a few of our existing shells, such as the great pecten, the edible oyster, the whelk, and the Pelican's-foot shell, up till the greatly earlier times of the Coraline Crag.
1901 E. Step Shell Life xiv. 241 The Pelican's-foot (Chenopus pes-pelicani) when fully developed brings to mind the Strombs and Wing-shells of the tropics.
1998 S. O'Connell Angel Bird 253 Opposite me was a shelf of shells—top hats, periwinkles, cowries, pelican's foot, a giant whelk and several baby clams.
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