单词 | echinus |
例句 | The echinus, or sea-urchin, is another species of the class and order vermes, mollusca. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z His chief work was the description of the invertebrate fossils of New York—in which he dealt with the graptolites, brachiopods, mollusca, trilobites, echini and crinoids of the Palaeozoic formations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Fragment of the capital of one of the Doric columns of the pronaos or opisthodomos, including the lower part of the echinus, and the upper part of the flutings. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z The windows of the principal story, the echinus moulding of which is handsome, have bold and enriched pediments, and the centre windows are honoured by massive balustrade balconies. Old and New London Volume I Also, batoons of St. Paul, the fossil spines of echini, found in Malta and elsewhere. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. “See, the whole beach is covered with beautiful shells, and there may be sea anemones and echini, and star-fish, and all sorts of marine creatures.” Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures If I was to bend round the rays of the starfish and fill up the interior, I could produce an animal very like the echinus. Ernest Bracebridge School Days The beak opens and shuts at intervals, like the jaws of the pedicellari� of the echinus, and there is altogether, in general principle, a remarkable similarity between the structures. On the Genesis of Species Let the height of the capital be divided into three parts, of which one will form the abacus with its cymatium, the second the echinus with its annulets, and the third the necking. The Ten Books on Architecture But, if pearls and bright shells be rarely found there, surely waifs, better than echini and sting-rays, are to be gathered on the “shores of long ago.” Sword and Gown A Novel Others have acquired hard or armed shells, as the tortoise and the echinus marinus. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life I found shells embedded in limestone varying considerably in its hardness being sometimes very friable and the surface in some places presenting innumerable fragments of corallines, with pectens, spatangi, echini, ostrea and foraminifera. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Yet the echinus can have, at the best, none but the most distant genetic relationship with the Polyzoa. On the Genesis of Species The projection of the echinus beyond the fillet of the abacus should be equal to the size of the eye. The Ten Books on Architecture This, though a less rational and expressive form for its particular office than is the echinus of the Doric cap, is a far more perfect symbol of the feminine element in nature. The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q The upward force is manifest primarily in the vertical columns, and is emphasized there by the flutings, the slight progressive narrowing toward the top, and the inward effort of the necking just below the echinus. The Principles of Aesthetics Superb specimens were secured,—large boulders crowded with colossal shells and perfectly preserved echini. Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Very frequently specimens of C. echinus occur in which some of the tubercles do not develop central spines, and then the spine characters resemble those of C. radians. North American Species of Cactus |
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