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Definition of Pholades
1. pholas [n] - See also: pholas
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pholades
Literary usage of Pholades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1853)
"The question of the perforation of rocks by pholades, which has been brought
before the Academy of Sciences, has given rise to a claim of priority put ..."
2. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1829)
"But what is very extraordinary, pholades had pierced those parts of the marble
... pholades. These marine molluscs are very common in the European seas; ..."
3. The Universe: Or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little by Félix-Archimède Pouchet (1884)
"... pholades in their holes—Pholas .1,„• at,,.. order to find in their depths the
molluscs, which they sell to the fishermen. When, after overcoming the ..."
4. Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects and Reptiles. Embellished with by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (1793)
"... u were penetrated by the pholades; and there ** can be no doubt of the animals
having pierced " into them fince their erection,. for no work- " men ..."
5. The Sea and Its Living Wonders by Georg Hartwig (1892)
"Luminous pholades.— The luminous Shark.—Phosphorescent Algae.—Citations from
Byron, Coleridge, and Crabbe. HE who still lingers on the shore after the ..."
6. The animal creation: A Popular Introduction to Zoology by Thomas Rymer Jones (1865)
"... new surface exposed by the destruction of the perforated part, there is not
much danger to be apprehended from them. The pholades* are likewise borers. ..."
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