单词 | poulp |
释义 | poulpn. Now rare. An octopus, cuttlefish, or other cephalopod; = polypus n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > member of cuttlec1000 polyp1590 cuttlefish1591 many-foot1601 poulp1601 sea-tree1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxii. 427 The Pulpe fish [L. polypum] or Pour cuttell, maketh at the very fishooks which hee searcheth after and those he..claspeth hard and gripeth round about with his clees. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. v. iv. 121 The Preke or Poulps. Polypus. 1746 C. Bennet Moffett's Health's Improvem. xviii. 165 Poulps are hard of digestion, naught howsoever they be drest. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvii. 105 In some genera, as the poulpe and sepiole, besides eight shorter arms, there is a pair of very long ones. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 527/1 The short round-bodied Octopi or Poulps. 1874 J. G. Wood Out of Doors 626 The Argonaut.—The animal, or ‘poulp’..is indeed a most lovely creature, despite of its unattractive form. 1895 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. & Hist. Fine Arts 10 403 Upon the vase paintings in Mykenai some of the figures, such as the poulp and the argonaut, may be easily identified. 1989 G. Bugialli Fine Art Ital. Cooking (ed. 2) 12 The boiled course contained poached tench..small poulps..in a sauce. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1601 |
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