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单词 pectuncle
释义

pectunclen.

Brit. /ˈpɛkˌtʌŋkl/, U.S. /ˈpɛkˌtəŋk(ə)l/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pectunculus.
Etymology: < classical Latin pectunculus small scallop < pectin- , pecten scallop (see pecten n.) + -culus -cule suffix; compare -cle suffix.
Now rare.
A cockle.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > integro-pallialia > family Cardiadae > member of (cockle)
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1748 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 45 47 Mr. Baker has shown me another species of Pholas..which has more of the Pectuncle than any other kind, in its Form.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Pecten The genus of pectuncles, or cockles, has been made by all authors a very extensive one.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 80/2 There are shells universally allowed to be pectens or scallops, which have no ears, and others as universally allowed to be pectuncles or cockles which have.
1997 M. J. S. Rudwick tr. G. Cuvier in Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, & Geol. Catastrophes xii. 144 Among the fossils particular to these lower beds, we shall mention pectuncles, solens, oysters, mussels, pinnas, calyptreas, pyrulas, [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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