| 单词 | purple shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurple shell purple shell n. (a) = sense B. 5 (now historical); †(b) a violet sea snail of the genus Janthina (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > family Ianthinidae > member of genus Ianthina carvel1657 purple shell1675 caravel1707 violet snail1845 1675 E. Sherburne in tr. M. Manilius Sphere 22 He finding on the Sea-shore an empty Murex or purple shell, is said to have wound it like a Horn. 1736 S. Humphreys tr. N. A. Pluche Spectacle de la Nature III. 12 The most full of Prickles among these last Kinds, as the Purple-Shell.., are of those whom the Ancients called Purples, or Purple-Fishes. 1850 I. Leeser tr. J. Schwarz Descriptive Geogr. & Hist. Sketch Palestine 197 Cheifa..was called Purpureon during the dominion of the Greeks and Romans, because the purple shell was often found and taken in the vicinity. 1885 Standard Nat. Hist. I. 325 (caption) Ianthina, purple shell, with the float supporting the eggs. 2001 Dumbarton Oaks Papers 55 352 Purple shell fishing was carried on in many fishing grounds along the coast of the Peloponnese.., Euboea, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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