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单词 dollar-fish
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dollar-fishn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dollar n., fish n.1
Etymology: < dollar n. + fish n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdollar-fish.
1. A name given to two kinds of fish, from their round form and silvery colour (in the case of the former, of the young.)
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a. Vomer setipinnis, called also moonfish.
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b. Stromateus triacanthus, called also butter- and harvest-fish.
2. An echinoderm of a discoid shape; a cake-urchin or sand-dollar.
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Stromat1803
katonkel1853
pompano1882
butterfish1884
harvest-fish1885
18.. J. W. Dawson in Borthwick Br.-Amer. Rdr. (1860) 222 The curious flat cake-like shells of the Echinarachnius Atlanticus,—the dollar-fish of some parts of the coast.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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