| 单词 | oyster drill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoyster drill oyster drill n. [ < oyster n. + drill n.2; compare sense 2 at that entry] originally U.S. (originally) a marine gastropod mollusc that bores into and feeds on oysters (and other molluscs), Urosalpinx cinerea, native to the Atlantic coast of North America and introduced elsewhere; (in later use also) any of various other marine gastropods that are predators of oysters; also with distinguishing word.Cf. tingle n.3 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Muricidae > member of murrey1579 murex1589 dog whelk1823 dogwinkle1856 marine borer1874 oyster drill1877 drill1886 1877 H. Dorner Guide N.Y. Aquarium 70 The Oyster-drill. (Urosalpinx cinerea). Next to the starfish this shell is the greatest enemy to young oysters and clams. 1929 Nature 24 Aug. 298/1 There now occur in England three oyster-drills or tingles, which in the adult state bore holes through the shells of oysters. 1978 R. J. Conover in O. Kinne Marine Ecol. IV. v. 309 A very similar range of feeding was found..for the rough oyster drill Eupleura caudata. 2015 E. B. Sherr Marsh Mud & Mummichogs v. 60 The oyster drill, Urosalpinx cinerea,..has a narrow white shell with fat ribbed whorls ending in a sharp tip. < as lemmas |
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