| 单词 | sea starch |
| 释义 | > as lemmassea starch b. English regional (southern). A jellyfish. Also with distinguishing word, as sea starch, yellow starch, etc. Cf. starch-fish n. at Compounds 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish) nettle1601 sea-nettle1601 blubber1602 nettlefish1611 red nettle1611 squalder1659 sea-jellya1682 urticaa1682 carvel1688 sea-qualm1694 sea-bleb1700 acaleph1706 sea-blubber1717 Medusa1752 quarla1820 acalephan1834 medusite1838 jellyfish1841 naked-eyed medusa1848 slobber1849 sea-cross1850 sea-danger1850 sun squall1853 discophore1856 medusoid1856 starch1860 Discophoran1876 jelly1882 sea-blub1885 1860 F. T. Buckland Curiosities Nat. Hist. 2nd Ser. 201 The Folkestone name for them [sc. jellyfish] is ‘slutters’; at Dover they call them ‘water-galls’, and ‘miller's eyes’, and ‘sea starch’; at Portsmouth they are called ‘blubbers’; elsewhere ‘slobs’ and ‘slobbers’. 1875 Once a Week 9 Oct. p. xii/1 The animal..seemed to have been one of those sometimes called ‘yellow-starches’, and, by the Kentish fishermen, ‘sluthers’. 1875 Star (Guernsey) Webb called out that he had been stung on the shoulder by one of the yellow jelly fish, or ‘water-starches’, as they are called. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Sea starch, jelly-fish. Dover. 1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 71 Wanted, British and foreign sponges... Also starches (genuine), large spines of echinodermata. < as lemmas |
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