单词 | pin-patch |
释义 | > as lemmaspin-patch pin-patch n. English regional (chiefly East Anglian) a periwinkle (the mollusc). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > family Littorinidae > member of genus Littorina (periwinkle) periwinkle1530 winkle1585 wrinkle1589 pin-patch1694 wink1851 Littorina1857 1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Rudens ii. i, in tr. Plautus Comedies 164 Whole beds o' crabs, lobsters, oysters, pinpatches, coral, muscles, and cockles. 1766 E. Buys Sewel's Compl. Dict. Eng. & Dutch (new ed.) II. 46 Alikruik, a cockle, wilk, pinpatch. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Pin-patches, Pin-paunches, the small shell fish called periwinkles... They are commonly drawn out of their shells with a pin. 1890 P. H. Emerson Wild Life Tidal Water x. 58 We cooked the periwinkles (‘pin-patches’ Joey called them). 1982 J. B. Gidmark Melville Sea Dict. 279 Periwinkle, the win-winde of the Anglo-Saxons, a favorite little shellfish, the pin-patch, or Turbo Littoreus. < as lemmas |
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