单词 | whale food |
释义 | > as lemmaswhale food whale food n. (also whale's food) [translating German Walfischaas (1747)] a general name for the small animals upon which whales feed; spec. a mollusc, Clio borealis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > class Pteropoda > Clio borealis whale food1767 Clio1835 1767 tr. D. Cranz Hist. Greenland I. 109 This whale's-food is found in the greatest quantity between Spitzberg..and Greenland. 1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 166 The immense aggregations of close~packed swimming invertebrata so well known to mariners in Arctic regions under the appellation of ‘whale-food’. < as lemmas |
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