单词 | venus's flower-basket |
释义 | > as lemmasVenus's flower-basket Venus's flower-basket n. a glass-sponge of the genus Euplectella, esp. E. aspergillum. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > class Hexactinellida > [noun] > member of genus Euplectella Venus's flower-basket1872 Venus-basket1882 1872 Good Words 13 703 One of the most beautiful of all natural productions, the Euplectella, or ‘Venus's Flower-basket’. 1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 121 The beautiful Philippine Venus's Flower-Basket (Euplectella aspergillum), which like several of its allies, lives at considerable depths. < as lemmas |
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