单词 | limax |
释义 | limaxn. 1. The typical genus of the Limacidæ or slugs; a member of this genus, a slug. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Limacidae > genus Limax limaxa1398 amber snail1752 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. lxx. 1222 Limax is a worme of lyme and haþ þat name..for he bredeþ in lyme oþer of lyme. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Limax, a Snail without a Shell; a Dew Snail, a Slug. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 87 Limax ater, the black Limax. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 87 The body of the Limax is of a figure approaching to cylindric. 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (new ed.) III. 31 Limax Rufus, L. (the Red Limax). 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (new ed.) III. 32 These Mollusca..closely resemble the common Limaces. 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 103 Some of the limaces lower themselves to the ground by a thread. 2. (See quot. 1839; the sense is recognized as English in some modern dictionaries.) ΚΠ 1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 484/1 Linnæus uses the word Limax to designate the soft parts of most of the genera of his (Vermes) Testacea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < |
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