| 单词 | agate snail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasagate snail agate snail n. any of various terrestrial gastropod molluscs, esp. giant African snails of the genus Achatina and Hawaiian snails of the genus Achatinella, which typically have boldly marked shells; cf. agate shell n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Helicidae > member of genus Achatina agate snail1815 1815 S. Brookes Introd. Conchol. 154 Agate Snail. Bulla achatina. 1871 W. S. W. Ruschenberger Elem. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) Gloss. 7 Achatina, name of a genus of terrestrial gasteropods, sometimes known as the agate snails. 1901 E. Step Shell Life xix. 379 The Agate Snail (Cæcilianella acicula), though only about one-fifth of an inch in length, is interesting on several grounds. 1948 Nautilus 61 95 One of the big African agate snails, Achatina, [was] kept some six weeks in a packing box with earth and sphagnum moss. 2011 Prague Post (Nexis) 9 Feb. Another starter, Agate snails, was surprisingly good. Half a dozen of the giant African land snails came in a special holed plate. < as lemmas |
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