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单词 seashell
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seashelln.

Forms: see sea n. and shell n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sea n., shell n.
Etymology: < sea n. + shell n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-shell.
a. A marine shell, the shell of any saltwater mollusc.
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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
a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 14 Jan. 18 Understregd mid sæscellum & mid scearpum stanum.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 84 Sea~shells of any sort are a very great improver of Land.
1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. ix. 270 Whose thunders, ever and anon, Commingling with the sea-shell's spiral roar, Closed the full harmony.
1858 O. W. Holmes Mare Rubrum 28 Like emptied sea-shells on the sand.
attributive.1871 H. B. Stowe Pink & White Tyranny i. 4 He saw this distant vision of airy gauzes, of pearly whiteness, of sea-shell pink.1901 F. Hume Golden Wang-ho i Complexion of the most delicate sea-shell pink.
b. Material consisting of seashells.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > mollusc or sea-shells
buckie1596
blackamoor's tooth1700
burgau1753
seashell1837
Bombay shell1858
paua shell1873
black helmet1876
1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 251 Mineral manures are silica, lime, alumina, under the modifications of sand, clay,..marl, sea-shell, gypsum.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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