| 单词 | butterfly snail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutterfly snail butterfly snail n. any of the pelagic gastropod molluscs of the group Pteropoda, which have wing-like flaps that are used in swimming; a sea butterfly. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > class Pteropoda > member of sea-wing1681 pteropod1833 wing-shell1835 butterfly snail1876 pteropodan1890 sea butterfly1909 1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation II. xix. 162 The Stump-headed Snails (Perocephala) are very closely allied..to the Cuttle-fish (through the Butterfly-snails). 1929 H. G. Wells et al. Sci. of Life II. vi. i. 556/2 A whalebone whale swims its devouring way through swarms of little crustacea or butterfly-snails, taking ten thousand at a gulp. 2008 T. Soper Wildlife of North Atlantic 14 The butterfly snail is a shell-less ‘naked pteropod’ which may grow to as much as 36mm in length. < as lemmas |
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