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Definition of Pholas
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Pholadidae: piddocks.
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Genus
Group relationships: Family Pholadidae, Pholadidae
Member holonyms: Piddock
Definition of Pholas
1. n. Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pholas, or family Pholadidæ. They bore holes for themselves in clay, peat, and soft rocks.
Definition of Pholas
1. Noun. Any of several borrowing marine bivalve molluscs of the genus ''Pholas'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pholas
1. a type of mollusc [n PHOLADES] - See also: mollusc
Medical Definition of Pholas
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pholas
Literary usage of Pholas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Mollusca: A Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward, Ralph Tate (1866)
"394); * the burrows of pholas are vertical, quite symmetrical, and seldom in
contact. ... and as the beach wears away the pholas burrows deeper. ..."
2. The Nature of Animal Light by Edmund Newton Harvey (1920)
"Luciferin was found only in the luminous organ of Pyrophorus, not in the blood;
luciferase probably exists throughout the animal.1 pholas LUCIFERIN. ..."
3. The Nature of Animal Light by Edmund Newton Harvey (1920)
"Luciferin was found only in the luminous organ of Pyrophorus, not in the blood;
luciferase probably exists throughout the animal.1 pholas LUCIFERIN. ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1851)
"Having, while residing here, opportunities of studying the pholas Dactylus, ...
The pholas Dactylus makes its hole by grating the chalk with its rasp-like ..."
5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1851)
"Having, while residing here, opportunities of studying the pholas Dactylus, ...
The pholas Dactylus makes its hole by grating the chalk with its rasp-like ..."
6. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1826)
"Observation» on Two Specks of pholas,^ on the ... seems yet to be but imperfectly
understood, though the pholas was known to the ancients, and Pliny notices ..."
7. Zinzendorff and Other Poems by Lydia Howard Sigourney (1835)
"THE pholas. It is a fact familiar to Conchologists, that the genus pholas,
possesses the property of phosphorescence. It has been asserted, that this may be ..."
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