单词 | mytiloid |
释义 | mytiloidadj.n. Zoology. A. adj. Originally: resembling a mussel, esp. in shape. Later: spec. of or belonging to the order Mytiloida of marine bivalves, which includes marine mussels.In quot. 1847 applied to a crustacean. ΚΠ 1847 A. Tulk tr. L. Oken Elements Physiophilos. 594 Fam. 4. Mytiloid [Ger. miesmuschelartig], Locust-Crabs. All the feet of pretty equal length... Fam. 5. Arcaceous, Macroura. Abdominal feet arrested. 1873 C. W. Thomson Depths of Sea 465 Dacrydium vitreum—a curious little mytiloid shell-fish. 1883 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Mytiloid, a term applied to shells resembling in character that of the mussel. 1962 Bull. Peabody Mus. Nat. Hist. No. 16. 38 Genus Mytilarca... The genus name is used here for the externally ligamented..mytiloid species, M. chemungensis (Conrad), upon which the genus was founded. 1988 Newslet. Stratigr. 18 147 The stage boundary is precisely defined by the appearance of mytiloid inoceramid bivalves. 1992 Biol. Bull. 183 123/1 One family of byssal precursors, previously characterized in a number of mytiloid species, consists of proteins between 70–130 kDa. B. n. A mussel; (now) esp. one of the marine order Mytiloida. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Mytilidae > member of (mussel) palour1589 sand-mussel1681 pearl shell1781 mytiloid1890 kuku1905 1890 Cent. Dict. Mytiloid n., a member of the family Mytilidæ; a mussel. 1962 Bull. Peabody Mus. Nat. Hist. No. 16. 41 Two poorly preserved composite molds of an elongate, anteriorly-lobed mytiloid may belong to this species. 1997 Cretaceous Res. 18 767 The type of the fourth species, Inoceramus kiliani Simionescu, represents a deformed specimen of an undetermined Late Turonian mytiloid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1847 |
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