| 单词 | pullet carpet shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspullet carpet shell 3. In full pullet carpet shell. A marine bivalve mollusc, Venerupis pullastra (family Veneridae), common in northern and Mediterranean waters. Cf. palourde n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves cockOE cockle1311 conch?1527 palour1589 conchyle1610 bivalvular1677 bivalve1684 nut-mussel1705 concha1755 cuckolda1757 Acephala1802 pullet1803 ciliograde1835 conchifer1835 acephalan1840 acephal1845 bivalvian1863 pelecypod1875 tea-clam1883 steamer clam1909 1803 G. Montagu Testacea Britannica I. 127 This species..is frequently eaten by the common people, and in some parts of Devonshire indiscriminately called Pullers or Pullets. 1901 E. Step Shell Life 136 The Pullet Carpet-shell (T. pullastra)... The colouring is in some specimens very suggestive of the plumage of a speckled hen, [whence] probably..the mollusk has got the name of Pullet, which is locally applied to it on parts of the Devon coast. 1974 S. P. Dance Encycl. Shells 268/1 Pullet Carpet Shell. Very similar in shape, size and ornament to V. rhomboides. < as lemmas |
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