单词 | snapping shrimp |
释义 | > as lemmassnapping shrimp c. snapping beetle (or bug, jack), snapping mackerel (see quots.); snapping shrimp, a shrimp of the family Alpheidæ, which uses its large chelæ to make a snapping noise; also called the pistol shrimp. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Scombridae > member of genus Temnodon (skipjack) horse1672 skipjack1703 snapping mackerel1861 skip mackerel1884 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Elateridae > member of (click-beetle) snap-beetle1698 spring beetle1782 skipper1796 elater1813 skipjack1817 snap-bug1834 click1848 snapping beetle (or bug, jack)1861 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > miscellaneous or unspecified types of shrimp beard1611 shrimplet1688 garnel1694 water shrimp1745 pandle1746 brine-shrimp1836 brine-worm1836 squilloid1852 well shrimp1853 glass-crab1855 shrimp1856 snapping shrimp1941 1861 Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. (1865) 5 416 There is scarcely an individual..unacquainted with the Spring-beetles, or as they are often termed, ‘Jumping-Jacks’, ‘Snapping-Jacks’. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 93 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV These insects [sc. Elateridæ] are known in Europe by the common name of ‘skip-jacks’,..and in America as ‘snapping beetles’, and erroneously ‘snapping bugs’. 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 433 The Bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix,..[is] in some parts of New England called ‘Snapping Mackerel’ or ‘Snappers’. 1941 J. Steinbeck & E. F. Ricketts Sea of Cortez 194 Sponges and tunicates under which small crabs and snapping shrimps hid themselves. 1964 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 2 431 The clicking of snapping shrimp..is a form of ambient sound when one is concentrating on the sounds of fish. < as lemmas |
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