| 单词 | lamp-shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslamp-shell lamp-shell n. a brachiopod, esp. one of the genus Terebratula or family Terebratulidæ. ΚΠ 1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 209 The Brachiopoda are bivalve shell-fish... Their forms are symmetrical, and so commonly resemble antique lamps, that they were called lampades, or ‘lamp-shells’, by the old naturalists. 1876 T. H. Huxley Amer. Addr. (1877) ii. 36 One of the cretaceous lamp-shells (Terebratula). < as lemmas |
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