单词 | sea butterfly |
释义 | sea butterfly in British Englishnoun another name for pteropod pteropod in British English (ˈtɛrəˌpɒd) noun any small marine gastropod mollusc of the group or order Pteropoda, in which the foot is expanded into two winglike lobes for swimming and the shell is absent or thin-walled Also called: sea butterfly sea butterfly in American Englishnoun any member of the gastropod order Pteropoda, shelled marine mollusks so called fortheir ability to swim using winglike extensions of the foot Word origin [1880–85]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: barnstorm, interface, jackpot, pari-mutuel, regionalismExamples of 'sea butterfly' in a sentence |
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