英语词汇“wing oyster”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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wing oyster

wing oyster n. any of various chiefly tropical and subtropical marine bivalve molluscs of the genus Pteria or family Pteriidae, which have a winglike extension to each valve producing an elongated straight hinge; (also) the shell of such a mollusc.

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1971 D. Nichols Oxf. Bk. Invertebr. 72/1 Pteria (Wing Oyster). The shell of this form has wing-like extensions of the valves which increase the length of the hinge-line.

1981 Washington Post 9 Aug. 7/1 Sticking to their sides were Atlantic wing oysters, camouflaged as cotton balls to escape the octopus.

2002 West Indian Jrnl. Marine Sci. 1 169 Other oyster species found during the survey were the wing oyster, Pteria penguin, occurring in deep channels in Shimoni and Mombasa.

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单词	wing oyster
释义	> as lemmas wing oyster wing oyster n. any of various chiefly tropical and subtropical marine bivalve molluscs of the genus Pteria or family Pteriidae, which have a winglike extension to each valve producing an elongated straight hinge; (also) the shell of such a mollusc. ΚΠ 1971 D. Nichols Oxf. Bk. Invertebr. 72/1 Pteria (Wing Oyster). The shell of this form has wing-like extensions of the valves which increase the length of the hinge-line. 1981 Washington Post 9 Aug. 7/1 Sticking to their sides were Atlantic wing oysters, camouflaged as cotton balls to escape the octopus. 2002 West Indian Jrnl. Marine Sci. 1 169 Other oyster species found during the survey were the wing oyster, Pteria penguin, occurring in deep channels in Shimoni and Mombasa. extracted from wingn. < as lemmas
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