| 单词 | plaice-worm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplaice-worm plaice-worm n. see sense 2. plaice-worm 2. British regional. A parasitic trematode worm (liver fluke) affecting sheep. More fully plaice-worm. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Platyhelminthes > [noun] > class Trematodes > member of fluke1668 plaicea1722 gourd-worm1756 weevil1789 trematode1859 bloodworm1872 a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husb. (1757) II. 337 These cored sheep have the fluck, or plaice-worm in their livers. 1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer 113 A Rotten Sheep, he says, he has several times seen die with Plaises in their Liver and Head. 1794 Rep. Agric. Surv., Cambr. 111 In the first stage of this disease [sc. the blood-rot] the liver has not been infected with the snails, or plaice. 1896 Daily News 26 May 6/4 Flukes or plaice, as they are indifferently called, from the resemblance they bear, are found in the biliary ducts, caused by the sheep being placed on wet fresh-water submerged meadows. < as lemmas |
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