| 单词 | bailer shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbailer shell bailer shell n. the shell of a gastropod mollusc of the genus Cymbium found in the south-western Pacific, also called melon shell at melon n.1 2; also, the mollusc itself. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Volutidae > shell of member of genus Cymbium melon shell1776 bailer shell1908 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. iv. 148 The bailer shell alive is like an egg, in the fact that it is full of meat. 1926 Austral. Encycl. II. 135/2 The most useful of all molluscs was the Melon or Bailer-shell (Cymbium flammeum), which served for a canoe-bailer. 1929 Times 2 Aug. 14/1 Several melon or bailer shells were as large as footballs. 1947 I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair viii. 56 Many a bailer shell filled with rich turtle soup. 1955 A. Ross Australia 55 121 Beautiful bailer shells, so-called because the natives use them to bail from their canoes. < as lemmas |
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