英语词汇“Pinna”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

Pinna

释义

‖ Pinna¹ Zool.|ˈpɪnə|
[L. pinna, variant of pīna (Cic., Plin.), a. Gr. πῖνα (also πίννα, πίννη), in same sense.]
A genus of bivalve molluscs, having a large silky byssus or ‘beard’.
c1520Andrew Noble Lyfe lxx, Pinna is a fisshe that layeth alwaye in the mudde,..& it is in a shell lyke a muscle.1651Raleigh's Ghost 113 The shelfish called Pinna is ever ingendred in muddy waters.1759B. Stillingfl. tr. Biberg's Econ. Nat. in Misc. Tracts (1762) 111 There is a very large shell-fish in the Mediterranean called the pinna,..furnished with very strong calcareous valves.1851Woodward Mollusca 11 The mussel and pinna spin a byssus.
b. attrib., as pinna shell; pinna-guardian, rendering of Pinnoteres: see pinnothere; pinna-wool, the byssus of the pinna as a textile.
1854Woodward Mollusca ii. 264 A little crab which nestles in the mantle and gills of the Pinna,..received the name of Pinna-guardian (Pinnoteres) from Aristotle.1884J. T. Bent in Macm. Mag. Oct. 427/1 Bright red pinna shells.1890Cent. Dict., Pinna wool.

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