| 单词 | king conch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasking conch king conch n. (also king-conk) any of several large marine gastropod molluscs with ornate shells, esp. Lobatus gigas; the shell of any of these gastropods. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Strombidae > member of Strombus1601 king conch1815 stromb1835 stromboid1891 1815 W. Williams & J. Eagles Jrnl. Llewellin Penrose I. iii. 50 Here I landed, and found the white spots I had seen to be king conches. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 22/1 The shells of this man's stock in trade he called ‘conks’ and ‘king conks’. 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 303 The queen-conch..has gone quite out of favour, and nothing but the king-conch—which, though smaller, is far richer in its colouring of dark chocolate and reddish brown—is looked upon with favour as an article of commerce. 2008 S. Kennedy Grits & Grunts 144 Both the elongated ‘king conch’ and the more common ‘queen conch’ are relished raw and prepared in a variety of forms. < as lemmas |
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