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单词 pholas
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pholasn.

Brit. /ˈfəʊləs/, U.S. /ˈfoʊləs/
Inflections: Plural pholades Brit. /ˈfəʊlədiːz/, U.S. /ˈfoʊləˌdiz/.
Forms: 1600s pholados (irregular), 1600s– pholas.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Greek ϕωλαδ-, ϕωλάς.
Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek ϕωλαδ-, ϕωλάς mollusc inhabiting holes in stone, use as noun of ϕωλαδ- , ϕωλάς lurking in a hole < ancient Greek ϕωλεός den, lair, hole, of uncertain origin + -άς -ad suffix1.
Zoology.
A piddock. Later: a burrowing bivalve mollusc of the genus Pholas, esp. the common piddock, P. dactylus; (in form Pholas), the genus itself.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Systema Naturæ (ed. 10, 1758) I. 669.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Pholadidae > member of
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1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 241 Pholas..They are pleasant to the pallate, but of evil juyce... They live in hollow places, and so amongst stones, that they can hardly be perceived.
1682 R. Hooke Let. 30 Mar. in R. T. Gunther Early Sci. Oxf. (1930) VII. 592 Your presents of the Black muscle and the Pholados [sic] stone were very kindly received.
1696 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 325 We have one sort of the pholas best described by you.
1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 45 In one part of the grot, were collected and arranged the stony coverings of all the shell-fish in the sea, from the striated patella and its several species, to the pholades in all their species.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 68 Thus immured, the pholas lives in darkness, indolence, and plenty.
1802 J. Playfair Illustr. Huttonian Theory 452 The marble columns of the temple of Serapis..are..perforated by pholades, to the height of sixteen feet above ground.
1899 Geogr. Jrnl. 14 257 Probably the cave was not situated at the same altitude as it is today, and the proof of this is the perforation of the rock by pholades.
1940 G. S. Carter Gen. Zool. Invertebr. xviii. 379 Investigation of the chemical nature of animal light has been largely restricted to the light of the lamellibranch Pholas and that of the ostracod Cypridina.
2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. vii. 239 Order Myoida includes thin-shelled burrowing forms with well-developed siphons, such as the Pholadidae, the piddocks, like Pholas.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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