pholadn.

Brit.

/ˈfəʊləd/, U.S.

/ˈfoʊləd/

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: French pholade; Greek ϕωλαδ-, ϕωλάς.

Etymology: < French pholade (1555 in Middle French, originally regional (Languedoc, Marseilles)) or its etymon Hellenistic Greek ϕωλαδ-, ϕωλάς pholas n. Compare Occitan folada (undated).The French and Occitan words have been suggested to derive from Hellenistic Greek as once spoken in the area (via Latin), rather than being a learned borrowing of the 16th cent. This argument rests on the earliest attested distribution of the term.

Zoology.

A burrowing bivalve mollusc of the genus Pholas or family Pholadidae.

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1708 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 79 (Advt.) Pholas, The Pholad, or Shrouded Shell.

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. viii. 245 The Pholads or stone-borers.

1889 Science 30 Aug. 145/2 The substance of the shell has been bored into from the outside by either a species of pholad or lithodomus.

1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs x. 193 In Petricola pholadiformis we have an elongate venerid that has evolved parallel to the pholads.

1991 Bioresource Technol. 35 200/1 The ability of pholads to tolerate the resin-treated wood is not surprising.

Derivatives

† pholadean n. Obsolete = pholadid n.

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