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‖ ellops Obs. in actual use.|ˈɛlɒps|
[a. Gr. ἔλλοψ or ἔλοψ, the name of a fish and of a serpent.
(The variants Elaps and Elops are used in mod. zoological Latin in different senses).]
1. A kind of serpent.
1667Milton P.L. x. 526 Cerastes hornd, Hydrus, and Ellops drear.
2. A kind of fish mentioned by ancient writers.
1601Holland Pliny I. 266 The Lamprey in Sicilie: the Elops at Rhodes, and so forth of other sorts of fishes. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) II. i. iii. 299 The Elops or Sea-serpent. 1775Ash, Ellops, a fish affording delicious food which some think to be the sturgeon of the moderns. 1875Browning Aristoph. Apol. 110 Spends all his substance on stewed ellops-fish. |