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单词 sea-slug
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sea-slugn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sea n., slug n.1
Etymology: < sea n. + slug n.1 With sense 2 compare earlier sea-snail n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-slug.
1. = trepang n.
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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).
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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).
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