单词 | whale-louse |
释义 | > as lemmaswhale-louse whale-louse n. a small crustacean of the genus Cyamus, parasitic on whales. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Amphipoda > suborder Caprellidea > member of genus Cyamus whale-louse1774 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 203 A small animal, of the shell-fish kind, called the Whale-louse, that sticks to its body. 1916 R. C. Andrews Whale Hunting with Gun & Camera xxi. 248 This growth [on the snout of the right whale] is produced by whale lice. 1952 J. Fisher Fulmar xviii. 423 He writes of the fulmars ‘searching out’ whale-lice. 1972 National Geographic Oct. 579 (caption) Communities of whale lice..some of them half an inch long, cling to the growths [on the head of each right whale]. < as lemmas |
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