| 单词 | jewel box clam |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjewel box clam 2. Frequently with distinguishing word. Any of the marine bivalve molluscs constituting the family Chamidae, which have robust shells with a rough or spiny surface (also more fully jewel box clam). Also: the shell itself. ΚΠ 1925 Nature Mag. Aug. 83/3 He is a small but chunky rock oyster... A close kin, nicknamed ‘jewel-box’, is a tiny, pink fellow, like a dainty sea-fairy's casket. 1954 R. T. Abbott Amer. Seashells Plate 37 (caption) Jewel boxes... Little corrugated jewel box, Chama congregata... Cherry jewel box, Chama florida... True spiny jewel box, Echinochama arcinella. 1978 Ecology 59 679 The jewel box clam, Chama pellucida, lives attached to shallow marine rock surfaces. 2009 R. L. Lippson & A. J. Lippson Life Along Inner Coast vi. 203/1 Unfortunately, most leafy jewel boxes that tumble ashore have lost their distinctive leafy projections. < as lemmas |
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