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‖ serpula Zool.|ˈsɜːpjʊlə|
Pl. serpulæ |-iː|.
[mod.L. use of late L. serpula small serpent.]
A marine annelid which inhabits a tortuous calcareous tube.
1767Phil. Trans. LVII. 432 The Serpula, or Worm-shell. 1834McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 256 Bent like the tubes of a Serpula. 1855Kingsley Glaucus 124 The tubes of serpulæ and other annelidæ. 1881–2W. Saville-Kent Man. Infusoria II. 778 Flashing out of sight after the manner of a serpula with the rapidity of lightning.
Hence serpuˈlacean, serˈpulean, ˈserpulid, an annelid belonging to a group or family of which Serpula is a typical genus; also attrib. or as adj.; serˈpulidan, ˈserpuline ns.; ˈserpulite Geol., a fossil serpula; also, a formation containing these; attrib. serpulite-grit; ˈserpuloid a., resembling or characteristic of the serpulæ.
1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 182/1 *Serpulaceans. Under this division Lamarck arranges the genera Spirorbis Serpula, Vermilia, Galeolaria, and Magilus.
1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. xii. 334 The second [Order] he [Savigny] names *Serpuleans.
1883Science I. 344/2 A new species of *serpulid, belonging, apparently, to the Sabellidæ. 1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 608 note, A Serpulid Placostegus benthalianus. 1935Discovery Apr. 98/2 The only growths..are..two species of serpulid worms. 1963R. P. Dales Annelids 15 The most specialized tube-dwellers are the sabellid and serpulid fan-worms. 1980Nature 29 May 323/1 The coarse and medium sand fractions consist of rock and pelecypod fragments, aragonitic and calcitic algae, serpulid tubes and peneroplid Foraminifera.
1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. xii. 344 The *Serpulidans, in general, imitate the spiral structure of the Trachelipod and other Molluscans.
1882Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 240 Ditrupa subulata, one of the *Serpulines.
1828–32Webster, *Serpulite, petrified shells or fossil remains of the genus Serpula. 1856Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. x. 118 We rank provisionally under the head annelida such organisms as serpulites (so called from their resemblance to the serpula of existing seas). 1880J. F. Blake in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. XXXVI. 192 The lower part is so full of Serpula gordialis as to almost merit the title of Serpulite. 1884Nature 13 Nov. 34/1 Fucoid-shales, Serpulite-grit, and limestone.
a1843Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 272/1 The *Serpuloid, Lumbricoid, and Hirudinoid orders have no head. |