| 单词 | water snail |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater snail water snail n. any of various gastropod molluscs, esp. pulmonate snails, that live in fresh or (rarely) salt water; cf. land-snail n. at land n.1 Compounds 2b(b), sea-snail n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Limnaeidae or Planorbidae > member of water snail1548 ramshorn snail1778 physa1834 mud snail1890 trumpet-snail1901 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.iijv Therfore it [sc. Medica] maye be called in englishe horned Clauer or snail Trifoly because the coddes are so wrythen in agayne as a water snayle or saynte corniliusses horne. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xii. 109 Water-rails..feed upon water-snails and water-flies. 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 212 There is a Sort of Water-Snails at the Cape, which the Europeans there call Screw-Snails. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 626/1 Examining the young of the viviparous water-snail. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 602 The larval stages [of the fluke-worm] are parasitic in the small water-snail (Limnaea truncatula). 2007 L. Bardsley Wildlife Pond Handbk. (new ed.) 58/2 Water snails are among the best grazing animals in ponds. < as lemmas |
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