dog whelk

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A carnivorous European mollusc, Nucella lapillus, found on rocky coasts.
    — 1971 January 14, Graham Chedd, Peter Stubbs, Gerald Wick (section editors), Monitor: Starving dog whelks grow teeth in the estuary, New Scientist, Volume 49, Number 734, page 57, A recent study of shell-shape in the dog whelk Nucella lapillus along the Bristol Channel suggests - that in progressively less saline conditions the species lives in a colonising situation, where periodic food shortages, rather than physiological limitations, decimate populations and sometimes lead to local extinction.

词形变化

dog whelks plural dog-whelk alternative dogwhelk alternative
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