| 单词 | rock snail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrock snail rock snail n. any of various snails that inhabit rocky places; esp. either of two European land snails, the lapidary snail, Helicogona lapicida, and (in later use) the very small Pyramidula rupestris. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Helicidae > genus Helix > helix lapidica rock snail1777 1777 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, quarto) IV. vi. 132 Helix... Lapicida... Rock [Snail]... A land shell. Inhabits clefts of rocks. 1866 R. Tate Plain & Easy Acct. Mollusks Great Brit. iii. 45 In the Rock Snail it becomes so in the adult. 1901 E. Step Shell Life xix. 349 The Rock Snail (H. rupestris)..attains a diameter of one-seventh of an inch. 1971 D. Nichols Oxf. Bk. Invertebr. 50/2 Pyramidula (Rock Snail) is always found on stone walls, buildings or rocks, especially limestone. 2003 Birmingham News (Alabama) (Nexis) 20 July The plicate rocksnail is a cornerstone species upon which all the other animals living in the river depend. < as lemmas |
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