Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word TROCHUS
TROCHUS
Definitions of TROCHUS
- (malacology) Any member of the genus Trochus, or more generally of the family Trochidae; in non-specialist usage, including species formerly classified in that family, particularly Tectus niloticus.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using TROCHUS in a Sentence
- By the 1870s, fishermen with luggers looking for trepang, pearl shell, and trochus were in the coastal areas.
- The fishermen were also collecting or hunting for Trepang (holothurians or sea cucumbers), turtle shell, trochus shell and shark fin.
- Coquilles nouvelles ou peu connues: Acantina delorioli, Bulimus wairgeirensis, Planorbis sinuosus, Littorina aurea, Trochus millelineata, Conus rubescens.
- Catalogue des Mollusques appartement aux genres Turbo, Calcar et Trochus, recueilles dans les mers de l'Archipel Calédonien (supplément), suivi de la liste des espèces des genres Delphinula, Liotia et Phasianella.
- Die Kreiselschnecken oder Trochoideen (Gattungen Turbo, Trochus, Solarium, Rotella, Delphinula, Phasianella).
- Their diet consisted of sea turtles, flying foxes, fowls, wild cherries, Burdekin plum, damson berries, trochus shells, baler shells, green ant and cockatoo apples.
- 'company boats', owned by Islanders and signed authorizations for provisioning the vessels and payments made for pearl-shell and trochus brought back to Badu.
- Die Kreiselschnecken oder Trochoideen (Gattungen Turbo, Trochus, Solarium, Rotella, Delphinula, Phasianella).
- Die Kreiselschnecken oder Trochoideen (Gattungen Turbo, Trochus, Solarium, Rotella, Delphinula, Phasianella).
- A new genus for "Amberleya" orbignyana Hudleston (1892); genus also contains "Amberleya" pagodiformis Hudleston (1892), "Amberleya" obornensis Hudleston (1892), "Eucyclus" goniatus Eudes-Deslongchamps (1860), "Amberleya"? espinosa Ferrari (2009), "Turbo" capitaneus Münster (1844), "Turbo" elegans Münster (1844), "Turbo" murchisoni Münster (1844), "Amberleya" decorata Martin (1858), "Turbo" ornatus Sowerby (1819), "Trochus" bisertus Phillips (1829), "Amberleya" generalis Münster (1844), "Amberleya" armigera Lycett (1863), "Amberleya" monolifera Lycett (1863), "Amberleya" dilleri Stanton (1895), "Turbo" morganensis Stanton (1895), "Trochus" gaudrianus d'Orbigny (1852) and possibly the new species Ambercyclus? isabelensis Ferrari, Kaim & Damborenea (2014),.
- Islanders from throughout the Torres Straits and New Guinea mainlanders attended the dedication travelling to Saibai in pearl, beche-de-mer and trochus luggers and in outrigger canoes.
- buckhornensis; genus also includes "Trochus" hissingerianus de Koninck (1843), "Pleurotomaria" squamula Phillips (1836) and "Luciellina" ocultabanda Kues & Batten (2001).
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