单词 | sea-slug |
释义 | sea-slugn. 1. = trepang n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > order Actinopoda > member of genus Holothuria sea-slug1779 swallo1779 trepang1783 sea-swallow1802 bêche-de-mer1814 cotton-fish1851 cotton-spinner1908 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 373 They lay at anchor, fishing for swallo, or sea slug, in seven or eight fathom water. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. ‘Extra’ 24 July 20/2 This so-called ‘Bêche de Mer’ is a sea-slug, found among the Polynesian islands and in the Pacific seas generally. 2. Any marine gasteropod of the order Opisthobranchiata (see quot. 1879). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Opisthobranchiata > member of sea-slug1845 opisthobranch1851 opisthobranchiate1885 1845 P. H. Gosse Ocean (1849) iii. 133 Its [a whale's] support is derived from creatures of very small bulk..such as shrimps, sea slugs, sea blubbers, and animalcules still smaller. 1855 C. Kingsley Glaucus 99 The Cucumaria is a low radiate animal—the sea-slug is a far higher mollusc. 1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 550 The molluscs of this order [Opisthobranchiata] may be termed sea-slugs, since the shell, when it exists, is usually small and thin, and wholly or partially concealed by the animal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1779 |
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