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語源

From Latin serpula. See serpent.

名詞

serpula (plural serpulas or serpulae)

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.

   Synonyms: calcareous tubeworm, serpulid tubeworm, fanworm, plume worm

派生語

参照

• “serpula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• epurals, perusal

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈsɛr.pʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈsɛr.pu.la]

名詞

serpula f (genitive serpulae); first declension

1. a little snake, a little serpent

語形変化

First-declension noun.

参照

• “serpula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “serpula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.