单词 | water vessel |
释义 | > as lemmaswater vessel water vessel n. (a) a container used to hold water; (b) a boat, ship, or other watercraft; (c) Zoology (in an invertebrate) any vessel or canal carrying water; esp. a vessel of the water-vascular system of an echinoderm. [ < water n. + vessel n.1; in sense (c) after German Wassergefäß (1850 or earlier in this sense); itself after Blutgefäß blood vessel (see blood vessel n.).] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > vessel in which water circulates water vessela1382 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 3 Kings vii. 38 Oon water vessel [L. luter] heeld fourti mesuris of þre quartis. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Yy2/2 The boates or water vessels that lye there. 1792 W. Bligh Voy. to South Sea 206 I..filled all our water vessels, which amounted to nearly 60 gallons. 1853 T. Williams Mechanism Aquatic Respiration 19 The blood-vessels are internally and externally lined with cilia, the water-vessels are so, and the visceral cavity is richly so. 1946 H. Woods Palæontol. Invertebr. (ed. 8) 120 In each of these grooves one of the five radial water vessels..is placed and from it arise the tubular offshoots known as the tube-feet. 1993 E. N. K. Clarkson Invertebr. Palaeontol. & Evol. (ed. 3) ix. 257/1 Here it joins the circum-oral ring, from which five radial water vessels extend, one running up the centre of each ambulacrum. 2000 C. Hanger World Food: Morocco 77 The pretty, chased copper water vessels are not sterilised between patrons, no matter what you are told. 2010 Los Angeles Times 3 June d6 She strings assorted kayaks, rowboats, canoes and other small water vessels to each other. < as lemmas |
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