单词 | sea purse |
释义 | sea pursen.ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > [noun] > other algae slake?a1505 laver1611 sea purse1769 water-net1821 red snow1825 red snow plant1836 hydrodictyon1841 Protococcus1842 snow plant1846 purple laver1847 red snow alga1848 gory dew1861 yellow cell1861 spirogyra1875 blanket-weed1879 phycochrome1881 zoochlorella1882 chlamydomonas1884 zygnemid1887 gonyaulax1902 chlorella1904 chlorophyte1937 1769 J. Berkenhout Outl. Nat. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland I. 210 Alcyonium..Bursa. Sea Purse. Subglobous, soft green. 1801 W. Turton tr. C. Linnaeus Gen. Syst. Nature IV. 653 Alcyonium Bursa..Sea Purse. 1835 G. T. Burnett Outl. Bot. I. 103 The Sea purse (Codium Bursa), is a rare and curious example of this group. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 497/2 Codium, the Sea-Purse, is a hollow, subglobose, dark green plant, composed of an interwoven mass of tubular continuous filaments. 1912 Farming (New Mexico) Enterprise 5 Apr. The button-like codium, or sea purse. 2. The tough, horny egg-case of a skate, ray, or shark. Also called mermaid's purse, sailor's purse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > member of (shark) > parts of serpent's tongue1578 mermaid's purse1700 spiracle1796 sea purse1836 the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > member of family Rajidae (ray) > part of virgula1661 mermaid's purse1700 sea purse1836 the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > member of genus Raia (skate) > part mermaid's purse1700 sea-pincushion1799 skate-rumple1823 sea purse1836 skate-barrow1851 sea-barrow1860 mermaid's-egg1890 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 368 These cases, which..are called Mermaid's purses, sailor's purses, sea purses, &c...are deposited by the parent Shark near the shore in the winter months. 1890 Longman's Mag. Aug. 449 These egg-cases are the ‘sea-purses’ which so puzzle visitors to the sea-side. 1938 Times 2 Apr. 10/3 These ‘sea purses’ are transparent when alive, so that the young dogfish can be seen wriggling about within the ‘shell’. 1986 C. R. Robins & G. C. Ray Field Guide Atlantic Coast Fishes N. Amer. 37 Most, if not all species, lay eggs in rectangular horny cases known as sea purses or mermaids' purses. 2009 S. Fridriksson in R. G. Gillespie & D. A. Clague Encycl. Islands 885/2 A number of sea purses, capsulated eggs of skate, drifted to Surtsey. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1769 |
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