| 单词 | pansy shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspansy shell 4. South African. In full pansy shell. A sand dollar, Echinodiscus bisperforatus, with a flower-like purple marking on the shell. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Echinoidea > order Clypeastroidea > member of sand dollar1884 sea-biscuit1949 pansy1954 1954 K. H. Barnard S. Afr. Shore-life 45 A particular kind of Cake-urchin is called the Two-slit Cake-urchin or Pansy Shell.., and is common in many sandy bays on the south coast. 1976 Het Suid-Western (George, S. Afr.) 8 Sept. A pansy is born male and then becomes female at a later stage in order to lay eggs already fertile by itself. 2003 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 5 Jan. 83 We were dropped on Pansy Island [sc. Mozambique], so called because of the proliferation of pansy shells, or sand dollars as the Yanks call them. < as lemmas |
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