squilla
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Etymology
Origin of squilla
From Latin, dating back to 1650–60; see origin at squill
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Line 12: my tocsin, mia squilla, is a pun on Campanella's name.
From Sonnets by Symonds, John Addington
Among these were some individuals of the squilla tribe, which, though one of the tenderest of the crustaceous family, had not suffered the least injury from pressure or friction.
From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Russell, Michael
Against stinking vermin called Punesies.—If you rub your bedsteede with squilla stamped with vinaigre, or with the leaves of cedar tree sodden in oil, you shall never feel punese.
From Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
Spawn of fish, minute mollusca, the small classes of squilla and cancer, are known to voyagers as causing a discolouration of the sea in particular places.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831 by Various
There are other crustaceans, next-door neighbors of the squilla, whose gills are still more simplified.
From The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals by Macé, Jean
There are the little shrimps and the big hump-backed fellows, or prawns; there are the ‘crangons’ or squillae; and the big lobsters and the crawfish or ‘langoustes’, their spiny cousins.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.
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