单词 | pipi |
释义 | pipin.1 1. New Zealand. An edible marine bivalve mollusc of New Zealand, Paphies australis (family Mesodesmatidae), found in silty and gritty sand. Also: any of several other edible bivalves, esp. the New Zealand cockle, Austrovenus (or Chione) stutchburyi (family Veneridae), of intertidal mud and sand flats. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shell-fish or mollusc > other edible molluscs musseleOE palour1589 ormer1637 mutton-fish1830 pipia1837 abalone1850 moule1867 toheroa1873 steamer clam1909 praire1929 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Tellinidae tellina1657 tellin1706 tellinet1708 setting sun1823 tulip-shell1835 pipia1837 1820 T. Kendall & S. Lee Gram. & Vocab. Lang. N.Z. 193 Pipi, a cockle.] a1837 E. Markham New Zealand (1963) 45 I have many times made a grand Meal in a Kanga Mouri or Native Village on Pippies, sitting round the Coppre Mouries, each helping themselves till all was done. 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes II. v. 101 Piles of white shells of the ‘pipi’, or cockle, brought from the sea-shore for food. 1881 J. L. Campbell Poenamo 204 Fern-root, flavoured with fish and pippies. 1905 W. Baucke Where White Man Treads 2 White seashore sandhills, representing the accumulated deaths of ages of pipi, pupu, kuku, and other molluscs. 1938 R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 75 He joined in a game of throwing big empty pipi shells into the air. 1972 M. Gee In my Father's Den 104 On Takapuna beach..Jonathan was throwing pipi shells into the wind. 1991 A. Campbell Sidewinder viii. 99 A group of women and children had a lot of success a few weeks ago, finding numerous pipi containing pearls. 2. Australian. An edible marine bivalve mollusc of southern Australia, Plebidonax deltoides (family Donacidae). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > integro-pallialia > family Cardiadae > member of (cockle) cockOE cockle1311 palour1589 urchin cockle1688 pectuncle1748 cuckolda1757 toheroa1873 pipi1895 1895 C. Thackeray Amateur Fisherman's Guide 70 The absolutely best baits are the lug or sea worm, and the pippie, a species of mussel. 1904 Shearer (Sydney) 22 Oct. 6/3 ‘Living ought to be cheap there?’ ‘Yes, if you are content to live on fish, oysters, pippies.’ 1968 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 14 June 17/8 A young woman..survived for eight days by digging pippie shells from the sand with her hands. 1988 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 1 July (Great Outdoors Suppl.) 5/3 Fisheries management authorities are believed to be considering imposing a daily bag limit on pippies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pipin.2 Obsolete. More fully pipi pod. The astringent pod of the tropical American plant Caesalpinia paipai (family Caesalpiniaceae ( Leguminosae)), sometimes used for tanning or making ink. Cf. Divi-divi n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > American or West Indian masterwort1523 hogweed1707 black root1709 many-seed1750 Martynia1753 Maranta1754 hog meat1756 iron1756 Evolvulus1764 zebra plant1826 turkey-flower1843 vriesia1843 Spanish needles1846 turkey-blossom1849 horse poison1851 St Martin's herb1860 goatweed1864 wake-robin1864 frog-bit1866 herb of St. Martin1866 pipi1866 goatweed1869 cigar-plant1961 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 188/2 C. Pipai produces pods which possess some astringency, and are called Pipi pods. 1879 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Pi-pi, the astringent legumes of the Cæsalpinia papai. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1a1837n.21866 |
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