| 单词 | roaring buckie |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroaring buckie roaring buckie n. Scottish the shell of the common whelk, Buccinum undatum, which appears to make a loud roaring noise (imagined to be the sound of the sea) when the opening is held to the ear (cf. buckie n. 1, roary buckie n. at roary adj. and n. Compounds). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Buccinidae > shell of whelk whelk-shellc725 whelk?1578 roaring buckie1808 roary buckie1827 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Buckie The roaring buckie, Buccinum undatum, Linn., is the common great whelk. 1854 Zoologist 12 4428 Waved Buccine, Buccinum undatum... This and the larger species of Fusus get the provincial name of ‘roaring buckies’. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xv. 398 The shells that give the best sea-murmurs are called in Scotland ‘roaring buckies’.., and are common on many parts of the British coast. 2001 A. Mac Póilin tr. N. Ní Dhomhnaill in G. Dawe & M. Mulreany Ogham Stone 25 On my walk I meet no hunchback scallops, roaring buckies or clam shells. < as lemmas |
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