单词 | sea-snail |
释义 | sea-snailn. 1. A name for various marine gasteropods. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > aquatic > marine sea-snailc1000 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 122/24 Chelio, testudo, uel marina gugalia, sæsnæl, uel pinewinclan. c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 181/8 Conche, uel cochlee, scille, uel sæsnæglas. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Chelydros, a see snayle. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 77 Take the blood of a sea-snaile, and for want thereof, a common snaile. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth (1824) III. 116 Of all sea snails, that which is most frequently seen swimming upon the surface..is the Nautilus. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 543 Clio helicina. Sea-snail. 1860 G. Bennett Gatherings of Naturalist in Austral. iii. 41 I caught a Janthina fragilis, or Violet Sea Snail. 1865 Mrs. L. L. Clarke Common Seaweeds i. 23 Bright yellow Nerits, the commonest sea-snail of our coast. 2. A fish of the family Liparididæ, esp. the Liparis vulgaris, or unctuous sucker. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Cyclopteridae (lump-fishes) > member of genus Liparis (sea-snail) sea-snail1686 burgau1753 sucker1753 suck-fish1753 unctuous sucker1776 Montagu's sucker1812 Montagu's sea snail1835 Montagu's sucking fish1836 snail-fish1840 1686 F. Willughby & J. Ray De Hist. Piscium Tab. H 6 Liparis nostras. Sea Snail Dunelmensibus. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 105 The sea snail takes its name from the soft and unctuous texture of its body, resembling that of the land snail. 1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 97 The Sea Snail..is often known as the Unctuous Lump-sucker. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.c1000 |
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