| 单词 | sea pincushion |
| 释义 | > as lemmassea pincushion 3. More fully sea pincushion. Any of various starfishes having the aboral surface covered with paxillae. Now usually attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Asteroidea > order Phanerozonia > member of genus Goniaster cushion-star1843 sea pincushion1863 1863 G. S. Brady in Intellectual Observer IV. 253 Goniaster equestris, the Sea-pincushion, as it is called by our northern fishermen..the large fleshy mass of the animal is covered thickly with round bosses or tubercles of the size of a large pin's head. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. x. 169 Starfishes or Asteroids... Examples: the common starfish (Asterias)..; the pincushion star (Porania); [etc.]. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xxi. 380/2 Members of the elongate pearlfish family..live by day inside mollusks and various echinoderms such as sea cucumbers and pincushion starfish. < as lemmas |
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