单词 | spout shell |
释义 | > as lemmasspout shell spout shell n. now rare a pelican's foot shell (genus Aporrhais), which has an expanded outer lip; (formerly also) a razor shell; = sense 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Solenidae razorc1311 spout1525 spout-fish1594 razor-fish1602 sheath-fish1602 hagfish1611 pitot1611 solen1661 sheath shell1712 sheatha1717 razor shell1752 knife-handle1755 sea-pencil1755 razor-shell clam1792 long clam1811 scabbard razor-shell1813 scimitar razor-shell1819 spout shell1848 scimitar1855 razor clam1860 1848 S. Maunder Treasury Nat. Hist. 769/2 A dimple in the sand points out the situation of the Solen or Spout-shell. 1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 198 Family Aporrhaidæ. (Spout Shells.) 1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 209 The genus Aporrhais, or the ‘Spout-shell’, is a shell with an elongated spire. 1903 W. S. Furneaux Sea Shore xii. 245 The enormously expanded lip..has earned for it the popular name of Spout Shell. 1950 W. Goldring Handbk. Paleontol. for Beginners & Amateurs (N. Y. State Museum Handbk.No. 9) (rev. ed.) I. 155 Of the marine forms, Turritella (Screw or Tower Shells) and Natica (Moon Shells) are known from the Triassic; Aporrhais (Spout Shells)..and Melania (Dark Turret Shells), from the Jurassic. < as lemmas |
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