| 单词 | canoe-shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmascanoe-shell canoe-shell n. any of various marine molluscs having a shell thought to resemble a canoe; spec. a gastropod mollusc of the genus Scaphander; (also) the shell itself. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > other types of gastropod mollusc purpura1598 patella1671 canoe-shell1711 oliva1823 monoceros1828 Olivella1835 holostome1864 sundial1868 archaeogastropod1955 1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VI. Table LIII Small Indian Canoe-shell... It's of an odd Shape, and sticks to larger Shells. 1878 Child's Compan. July 109/1 The rocks are so thickly covered with barnacles, canoe-shells, and limpets. 1945 E. Step & A. L. Wells Shell Life (new ed.) xvi. 272 The Canoe-shell (Scaphander lignarius) is a many-whorled spiral of reddish hue. 2001 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 6 July (Sports Final ed.) Equally chewy and flavorful were the razor clams, served cold in their canoe shells. < as lemmas |
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