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单词 petuncle
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petunclen.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pétoncle.
Etymology: < French pétoncle (1415 in Middle French as poitoncle ) < classical Latin pectunculus small scallop (see pectuncle n.). Compare earlier pectuncle n.
Zoology. Obsolete. rare.
A small scallop.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Pectinidae > genus Pecten > member of > shell of
cockle1415
cockleshell?1440
scallop-shell1530
freel1637
scallop1639
frill1713
Jacob's shell1757
petuncle1854
skimmer shell1880
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 42 The best nidus for all kinds of coquillages, oysters, scallops, the petuncles (whence we derive our purples).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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