mactra
See also: Mactra
English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
mactra (plural mactras)
- Any marine bivalve shell of the numerous known species of genus Mactra and allied genera, some of which are used as food, as Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., of Europe.
Synonyms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mactra”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Late Latin gloss of Ancient Greek μάκτρα (máktra, “kneading trough”).
Noun
mactra f (genitive mactrae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mactra | mactrae |
Genitive | mactrae | mactrārum |
Dative | mactrae | mactrīs |
Accusative | mactram | mactrās |
Ablative | mactrā | mactrīs |
Vocative | mactra | mactrae |
References
- “mactra”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011