单词 | limulus |
释义 | limulusn. Zoology. A genus of Merostomata (Order Limulidæ); the king-crab or horseshoe crab. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > order Xiphosura or Merostomata > [noun] > genus Limulus limulus1836 1836 W. Buckland Geol. & Mineral. I. xvi. 393 A second approximation to the character of Trilobites occurs in the Limulus, or King crab. 1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 233 Limulus, the Molucca-crab, king-crab, or horse-shoe crab. 1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man v. 94 The Limuli, or horse-shoe crabs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1836 |
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