| 单词 | pectuncle | 
| 释义 | pectunclen. Now rare.   A cockle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > 			[noun]		 > section Siphonida > integro-pallialia > family Cardiadae > member of (cockle) cockOE cockle1311 palour1589 urchin cockle1688 pectuncle1748 cuckolda1757 toheroa1873 pipi1895 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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