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单词 sea purse
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sea pursen.

Brit. /ˈsiː pəːs/, U.S. /ˈsi ˌpərs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sea n., purse n.
Etymology: < sea n. + purse n.
1. A green alga which has a soft, globular thallus, Codium bursa, native to coastal waters of the Mediterranean and northeast Atlantic Ocean. Obsolete.
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gory dew1861
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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.
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > member of (shark) > parts of
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mermaid's purse1700
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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).
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