单词 | horseshoe crab |
释义 | horseshoe crab (once / 157591 pages) n WORD FAMILY horseshoe crab: horseshoe crabs USAGE EXAMPLESOne morning last week though, I saw a horseshoe crab that was probably 3 feet long, skittering along the shore line near Socrates Sculpture Garden! New York Times(Oct 27, 2016) Like the horseshoe crab, elephant shark, and cockroach, the ginkgo is a living fossil, meaning it has existed virtually unchanged for over 200 million years. Slate(Oct 10, 2016) A door knocker for a Rockville, Md., apartment recalls a horseshoe crab. Washington Post(Sep 20, 2016) n large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail; a living fossil related to the wood louse Syn|Hyper Limulus polyphemus, Xiphosurus polyphemus, king crab arthropod invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin |
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