“sea-trumpet”的英英意思

单词 sea-trumpet
释义 sea-trumpet
1. A trumpet-shell or triton-shell. Obs.
1668Charleton Onomast. 177 Cancellus in Buccino degens, the bigger Souldier-Crab dwelling in the Sea-Trumpet.
2. A kind of trumpet used at sea.
1776Burney Hist. Mus. I. 522 The Concha, Tromba Marina, or Sea-Trumpet.
3. A very large seaweed, Ecklonia buccinalis.
So called from the use of the hollow upper part of the stem when dried, as used as a trumpet at the Cape of Good Hope.
1829Loudon Encycl. Plants (1836) 945 L[aminaria] buccinalis furnishes the singular vegetable production called the sea-trumpet.1866Treas. Bot. s.v.1882J. Smith Dict. Pop. Names Plants 419 Trumpet, Sea (Ecklonia buccinalis) a strong-growing seaweed of the Laminaria section of Algæ.

 

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