The long tubular or tusk-shaped shell of a scaphopod mollusc, esp. that of a mollusc belonging to the genus Dentalium, or more widely to the family…
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| 释义 | the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Scaphopoda > [noun] > member of genus Dentalium (7) hake's tooth1584 The long tubular or tusk-shaped shell of a scaphopod mollusc, esp. that of a mollusc belonging to the genus Dentalium, or more widely to the family… antal1657 A marine mollusc of the scaphopod genus Dentalium; a tooth shell. dental1678 Zoology. A mollusc of the genus Dentalium or family Dentaliidæ; a tooth-shell. tooth-shell?1711 The long tubular shell, in shape like a tooth or tusk, of any gastropod mollusc of Dentalium or other allied genus; also the mollusc itself. tusk-shell1825 = tooth-shell, n. dentalium1864 A tooth-shell of the genus so named (cf. dental, n. 4). Also attributive. tusk1916 A projecting part or object resembling the tusk of an animal. Short for tusk-shell n. at compounds 2 (In recent dictionaries.) |
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