serpula

n. [动]龙介虫

词形变化

serpulae serpulas 复数 serpulas serpulae 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae that secrete a calcareous tube, usually irregularly contorted, but sometimes spirally coiled, with a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.

词源

From Latin serpula. See serpent.

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