单词 | music volute |
释义 | music voluten. Conchology. A volute of the southern Caribbean and north-eastern South America, Voluta musica, whose shell is cream with a pattern of fine brown lines and dots resembling musical notation. Cf. music shell n. ΚΠ 1818 W. Wood Catal. Shells 99 Voluta. Volute... 147 [Voluta] Musica 3460 Music [Volute]. 1849 L. A. Reeve Conchologia Iconica (1851) VI. Voluta Pl. VIII. Species 18 Voluta Musica. The Music Volute... This very beautiful and well-known shell appears to have discoursed most eloquent music to the mind of Lamarck. 1947 P. A. Morris Field Guide Shells Atlantic & Gulf Coasts 211 The popular music volute is perhaps as aptly named as any shell.., for its color pattern of spotted lines certainly does suggest the bars and notes of written music. 1982 Macdonald Encycl. Shells No. 131 Voluta musica. Music volute. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1818 |
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