| 单词 | river shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasriver shell river shell n. the shell of a freshwater mollusc, esp. as contrasted with a marine or terrestrial one. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xxxii. v. 435 To come now to the riuer shell-snailes: most certaine it is, that their flesh..is singular good to resist the venome of scorpions.] 1700 Wallace's Acct. Orkney (rev. ed.) ii. 39 Since there are no Rivers, there can no River-shells be expected here. 1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 125 Numbers of sea Shells are as thin as river Shells, e.g. the Paper Nautili, Partridges, &c. 1816 T. Brown Elements Conchol. 130 River and land shells are mostly thinner than those of the sea. 1905 H. H. Howorth Ice or Water II. xiii. 231 We may take it, therefore, as an absolute feature of the loess that it contains virtually no river shells. 1997 X. Sun & J. Kistemaker Chinese Sky during Han vi. 116 (caption) The mosaicked images from river shells represented the Dragon and the Tiger. < as lemmas |
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