单词 | dollar-fish |
释义 | dollar-fishn. 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.) Categories » a. Vomer setipinnis, called also moonfish. Categories » b. Stromateus triacanthus, called also butter- and harvest-fish. 2. An echinoderm of a discoid shape; a cake-urchin or sand-dollar. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Stromatoidei > member of (butter-fish) Stromateus1753 dollar-fish18.. 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). < n.18.. |
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