| 单词 | testaceous fish |
| 释义 | > as lemmastestaceous fish 2. Having a shell, esp. a hard, calcareous, unarticulated shell. †testaceous fish = shell-fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a hard protective covering > having a shell shelly1593 cockled1598 testaceous1646 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [adjective] > of types of > of or relating to Testacea testaceous1646 conchyliferous1811 testacean1846 testate1947 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 203 All [fishes] that are testaceous, as Oysters, Cocles, Wilks, Schollops, Muscles, are excluded. 1759 B. Stillingfleet tr. I. Biberg Oeconomy Nature in Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 47 Testaceous worms..eat away the hardest rocks. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iv. iii. 219 The testaceous marine animal,..known commonly by the vulgar name of Oyster. 1875 C. C. Blake Zoology 232 When the shell is so much enlarged that the contracted animal finds shelter beneath or within it, the animal is said to be testaceous. < as lemmas |
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