Lexicographical Neighbors of Epiphragms
Literary usage of Epiphragms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1880)
"Having made one of these slime-plates, or " epiphragms " as they are ...
Between each pair of epiphragms a layer of air is enclosed, and, ..."
2. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1882)
"In case the weather is very severe, the mollusk gradually retires farther within
its shell, constructing additional epiphragms at intervals— always thinner ..."
3. The Natural History of Some Common Animals by Oswald Hawkins Latter (1904)
"At times several epiphragms are found one within the other as the snail retreats
... Probably a small aperture for respiration exists in all epiphragms, ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"As the winter advances the snail withdraws deeper and deeper, shutting itself
out by other epiphragms, like a retiring army covering its front by ..."
5. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"Within these extremes every variety of thickness, solidity, and transparency occurs.
During long hibernation several epiphragms are not ..."
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