| 单词 | saucepan crab |
| 释义 | > as lemmassaucepan crab saucepan crab n. now historical and rare the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus; cf. panfish n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > order Xiphosura or Merostomata > [noun] > genus Limulus > member of king crabc1612 horse-foot1672 Molucca crab1681 sea-louse1681 horse-hoof1699 horseshoe1775 saucepan crab1863 horseshoe-crab1865 fiddle-fish1867 xiphosurid1969 1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 645 One living species (Limulus cyclops) is a native of the East Indies, and goes by the popular name of Pan-fish, or Saucepan-crab, because the shell, when the limbs and body have been removed and the tail spine permitted to retain its place, has some resemblance to the useful culinary article. 1960 Estuarine Bull. Summer 4 (caption) These animals, once also called ‘saucepan crabs’, were dried before being coarsely ground into a fertilizer meal. < as lemmas |
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