单词 | nereis |
释义 | Nereisn. Zoology. A genus of marine annelids (the type genus of the family Nereidae or Nereididae, the ragworms); (also nereis) a worm of (or formerly assigned to) this genus. See Nereid n. 2.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Systema Naturæ (ed. 10, 1758) I. 654. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish) > member of family Medusidae Nereis1752 medusidan1847 medusid1861 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Polychaeta > suborder Nereidiformia > genus Nereis Nereis1752 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 92 The body of the Nereis is of a cylindric figure; and the tentacula are four in number, but two of them are usually very short, often scarce perceptible. 1766 Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 283 We dissected carefully the spongia medullam panis referens..and were suprized to find a great number of small worms..particularly a very small kind of nereis, or sea-scolopendra. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 8/2 Nereis gigantæa, or giant nereis... The three rows of small tufts..serve this nereis instead of feet. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 507 The Night-shining Nereis. 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 538/2 In the Nereis, Aphrodite, and other erratic worms. 1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 184/1 The nereis, with opal tints and gleams of pearl,..resplendent with light. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. viii. 156 Elegant also are various kinds of Nereis, such as the long and strong Nereis virus, which bait-seekers call the ‘creeper’. 1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans xv. 479 The mussel beds provide shelter for less conspicuous animals such as the segmented sea worm, Nereis. 1998 L. Margulis & K. V. Schwartz Five Kingdoms (ed. 3) iii. 277/1 Marine polychaetes include..economically important bait worms such as Nereis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1752 |
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