serpula

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

serpulas plural serpulae plural

词源

From Latin serpula. See serpent.
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