单词 | olive shell |
释义 | > as lemmasolive shell olive shell n. see sense A. 9. olive shell 9. Any of various marine gastropod molluscs of the genus Oliva or family Olividae; the shell of any of these, which is cylindrical, glossy, and has a short spire. Also olive shell. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > member of family Olividae olive1776 Panama1776 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > member of family Olividae > shell of rhombus1712 olive shell1882 1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. iii. 70 Many Shells are fished up extremely beautiful and polished..: such are the Cowries, Tuns, some Buccina, the Volutes, and the Olives. 1843 Zoologist 1 54 That beautiful, elegant and brilliantly polished genus of shells called Olives. 1856 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca iii. 353 Since the period of the English chalk-formation, there have been..Cones and Olives in the ‘London basin’. 1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 132 Cowries and olives. 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Oliva, the olive-shell, so named from the olive-like shape of the shell. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xv. 409 The mollusc's shell, such as that of..an olive..,is a product of a fold of skin called the ‘mantle’. 1966 P. A. Morris Field Guide to Shells of Pacific Coast & Hawaii 190 One sometimes finds a pure yellowish example of this species..; such ‘golden olives’ are eagerly sought. 1991 Southwest Winter 75/3 (caption) Add a touch of the Southwest to your wardrobe with this 3-strand turquoise necklace set strung with olive shell heishi. < as lemmas |
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