单词 | cornetfish |
释义 | > as lemmascornetfish cornetfish n. †(a) a kind of whelk or large sea snail (see sense 7a) (obsolete); (b) any of several large, very slender, predatory marine fishes of tropical coasts and reefs, having a long narrow snout and an elongated tail filament, and constituting the genus Fistularia and family Fistulariidae (also called flute-mouth). ΚΠ 1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Cornet fish, Buccinum piscis. 1896 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Check-list Fishes & Fish-like Vertebr. N. & Middle Amer. 325 Family CI. Fistulariidæ. The Cornet-Fishes. 1985 G. Goodson Fishes Atlantic Coast 164/1 (caption) Bluespotted cornetfish (corneta) Fistularia tabacaria. 2010 J. E. Randall Shore Fishes Hawaiʽi (rev. ed.) 51 Cornetfishes..feed by sucking in their prey of small fishes in pipette fashion. < as lemmas |
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