| 单词 | pistol crab |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspistol crab pistol crab n. now rare = pistol shrimp n. ΚΠ 1903 Biol. Bull. 4 198 By..suddenly snapping the claws together the hammer is forced into the socket..to produce a surprisingly loud report, whence the popular name ‘pistol crab’. 1949 Sci. Monthly Sept. 203/1 The name long applied to one of the commoner California pistol-crabs—more properly a shrimp, Crangon dentipes..—has been replaced by..C. clamator. < as lemmas |
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