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单词 black-lip
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black-lipadj.n.

Brit. /ˈblaklɪp/, U.S. /ˈblækˈlɪp/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., lip n.
Etymology: < black adj. + lip n.
A. adj.
Designating molluscs (and their shells) having a black lip to the shell, esp. the pearl oyster, Pinctada margaritifera. Also: designating molluscs having a black edge to the foot, esp. an Australian abalone, Haliotis rubra. Usually attributive.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [adjective] > having other characteristics
ametabolous1828
black-lip1852
1852 L. A. Reeve Conchologia Iconica (1854) VII. Helix Pl. LXXI. Species 367 (caption) The black-lip Helix. Shell imperforated, somewhat globosely conoid.
1904 Ann. Rep. Brit. New Guinea 1902–3 49 There has been a substantial increase in the quantity of beche de mer, and a slight increase in blacklip shell.
1968 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 13 Oct. 3/3 The oysters are of two species, milky and black-lip.
1991 Austral. Jrnl. Marine & Freshwater Res. 42 77 (title) Genetic variation and population structure in the blacklip abalone, Haliotis rubra.
2004 Geogr. Jrnl. 170 73/1 Many inshore reefs have been degraded by..removal of certain target species for specialist exports (such as..black-lip oysters for pearl shell).
B. n.
A black-lip oyster or its shell. Now rare.
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1893 Proc. Austral. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 4 615 Pearl shell is found there, but not in any very large quantity. Some of it, the ‘black lip’, is good.
1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. iv. 141 The black-lip occurs on the reef, but not in any great quantity.
1935 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 65 102 The hook..is made of the pearl shell called kile by the natives, and ‘blacklip’ by the Europeans.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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