| 单词 | rosebud shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrosebud shell 3. Any of various small seashells of a pink or partly pink colour, typically of the family Muricidae (cf. murex n. 1). Also rosebud murex, rosebud shell. Now rare.In quot. 1815: an Indo-Pacific sea slug, Hydatina amplustre, with a pink and white striped shell. The shells referred to in later quots. have not been identified. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > Testacea (shelled molluscs) > shelled mollusc > shell seashella900 shale1561 buckie1596 caracol1622 valve1661 spire1681 umbilicus1688 conch-shell1697 wart-shell?1711 needle1713 multivalve1753 concha1755 periosteum1758 conch1773 devil's claw1773 furbelow1776 peewit's egg1776 worm-tube1776 rosebud1815 sheath1815 periostracum1833 epicuticle1885 epicuticula1886 leg of mutton1891 trivalve1891 1815 S. Brookes Introd. Study Conchol. 156/2 Rose Bud. Bulla Amplustra. 1839 G. B. Sowerby Conchol. Man. 67 The Rosebud Murex with its pink-tipt fringes. 1852 W. B. Jerrold How to see Brit. Mus. in Four Visits i. 58 The next table (22) displays the shell of the curious carrier,..the slipper shell, and the rose bud. 1883 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 12 433 (table) Murex (? palma-rosæ)... Rose-bud shell. 1893 S. R. Crockett Stickit Minister (1895) 242 The lady teachers wandered about and..explored with their classes the great shell-heaps for ‘rosebuds’ and ‘legs of mutton’. 1941 H. Cochran Buccaneer Islands 71 Occasionally they found tiny pink ‘rose-bud’ shells and another smaller kind which Clare called ‘green peas’. < as lemmas |
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