| 单词 | electric fish |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselectric fish electric fish n. any of certain fishes that can deliver an electrical discharge. ΚΠ ?1787 W. F. Mavor New Dict. Nat. Hist. I Electric Fish, see Torpedo. 1860 C. Darwin Let. 16 Nov. in Corr. (1993) VIII. 474 He says owing to passage in my Book on Electric fishes he has been dissecting Rays, & believes he finds in same fish the homologues of both the anterior & posterior proper electric organs of fish. 1974 J. B. Finean et al. Membranes & Cellular Functions iii. 55 Several compounds reversibly antagonize the effects of acetylcholine on voluntary muscle and on the electrogenic tissue of electric fishes. 2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 647/1 Ghost knifefish, Magosternarchus duccis. An electric fish, discovered in the Amazon Basin by John Lundberg and described in 1996, that only eats the tails of other electric fish. < as lemmas |
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