noun

Measure Word

tiáo

Meanings

  1. 1 spoon worm
  2. 2 echiuran; marine worm of the class Echiura

Examples

Yì shì yī zhǒng shēnghuó zài hǎidǐ níshā zhōng de rúchóng.
The spoon worm is a kind of worm that lives in sandy seabed sediment.
Dānhuán cìyì zài Hánguó bèi chēngzuò gāicháng chóng, shì yī zhǒng hǎixiān.
The innkeeper worm (Urechis unicinctus), a species of spoon worm, is eaten as seafood in Korea.

Tips

usage
A technical zoology term. The character is rare outside marine biology. The most familiar species to Chinese speakers is (Urechis unicinctus), a phallus-shaped worm used in East Asian seafood cuisine.

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