| 单词 | ribbon worm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasribbon worm ribbon worm n. †(a) a tapeworm (obsolete); (b) = nemertean n.; a proboscis worm. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Platyhelminthes > [noun] > class Nemertea > member of family Nemertidae ribbon worm1828 1771 W. Hooper tr. J. F. von Bielfeld Elements Universal Erudition (new ed.) I. xlviii. 295 The order of reptiles; as the thread worm, the riband worm, the lumbricus or earth worm, those of the intestines.] 1828 White's Compend. Cattle Med. (ed. 5) 187 Another [parasite of the dog]..I have named the ribbon-worm, from some resemblance it bears to a very narrow white ribbon. 1855 W. S. Dallas in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature II. 275 The family of Nemertidæ, or Ribbon-worms..probably forms the type of a fourth order of Platyelmia. 1892 G. S. Woodhead Pract. Pathol. (ed. 3) 612 The matured strobilus is a soft, flattened, yellowish white ‘band’ or ribbon worm. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. ii. 26 Blood is first seen in Ribbon-worms or Nemertines, and some of them have haemoglobin. 2001 Tropical Fish Hobbyist Apr. 136/1 Your net may have also disturbed a variety of ribbon worms from their burrows in the mud. < as lemmas |
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