单词 | helmet-shell |
释义 | > as lemmashelmet-shell helmet-shell n. see sense 5. helmet-shell 5. (in full helmet-shell.) The shell of a mollusc of the genus Cassis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > member of genus Cassis > shell of helmet1753 Bombay shell1858 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Cassis lævis, the smooth helmet shell, a name given by Rumphius, though very improperly, to the genus of shells called dolia and conchæ globosæ. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 408 The..real Conques come next after the Helmets. 1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 290 A Helmet, Cassis. 1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 381 Cameos..that are cut from the Horned Helmet-shell are white. < as lemmas |
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