| 单词 | purple whelk |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurple whelk purple whelk n. now rare any of several dog whelks of the genus Nucella (or Thais); cf. sense B. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Thaididae > member of genus Purpura (purple) purpure?a1425 purple1580 purple-fish1591 purple whelk1681 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. vi. i. 129 The Purple-Wilk with long plated Spikes. 1816 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 106 307 It somewhat resembles the secretion obtained from the buccinum lapillus, or purple whelk. 1879 Globe Encycl. V. 263/1 Purpura, a genus of Gasteropodous Molluscs..represented by the Common Purple Whelk (P. lapillus) of the British coasts. 1937 Amer. Midland Naturalist 18 198 Thais emarginata, the purple whelk, bores through the mussel shells and extracts the soft parts. < as lemmas |
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