| 单词 | crown-of-thorns starfish |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrown-of-thorns starfish 3. More fully crown-of-thorns sea-star, crown-of-thorns starfish. A large starfish of warm Indo-Pacific seas, Acanthaster planci, which has many arms and numerous venomous spines, and is noted for destroying the stony corals on which it feeds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Asteroidea > unspecified and miscellaneous types > acanthaster planci (crown of thorns) crown of thorns1959 1959 K. Gillett & F. McNeill Great Barrier Reef & Adjacent Isles vi. 96 The stunted arms of the bulky Pin-cushion Sea-star..contrast strongly with the many-armed Crown of Thorns Sea-star, Acanthaster planci. 1969 Sci. Jrnl. Nov. 15/1 (caption) Starfish, known as the ‘Crown-of-thorns’, is wreaking havoc amongst coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. 1993 J. E. N. Veron Corals Austral. & Indo-Pacific (new ed.) 51 (caption) The crown-of-thorns starfish feeds by everting its stomach through its mouth, wrapping it around its coral prey and digesting the polyps in their own skeletons. 2007 M. J. Rhodes & D. Hall Life on Coral Reef 40 The crown-of-thorns is a coral predator that always seems hungry. < as lemmas |
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