| 单词 | needle whelk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasneedle whelk needle whelk n. a horn shell of the genus Bittium (family Cerithiidae); esp. B. reticulatum of the north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean. ΚΠ 1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall xxiii. 277 The small needle whelke. 1901 E. Step Shell Life xiv. 238 We are back again upon the seashore seeking for what Borlase nearly one hundred and fifty years ago called the Small Needle-whelk (Bittium reticulatum), a name we believe not in use among the folks along our coasts. 1971 D. Nichols Oxf. Bk. Invertebr. 40/1 Bittium (Needle Whelk) has a small, darkly coloured pointed shell with regular tubercles. < as lemmas |
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