| 单词 | eye-sucker |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseye-sucker eye-sucker n. now historical and rare any of several parasitic copepods of the family Pennellidae, which attach themselves to the eyes of the marine fishes that are their primary host. ΚΠ 1744 H. Baker in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 35 I shall..distinguish it by the Name of Eye-Sucker, as that Name conveys an Idea of the Manner how it lives. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Eye-sucker, a small sea insect, which is sometimes found fixed by the snout to the Eyes of sprats. 1823 Encycl. Londinensis XIX. 551/1 Pennatula filosa, the eye-sucker: stem a little fleshy, with a rib feathered on each side, and furnished with two filiform tentacula at the base. 2002 D. M. Damkaer Copepodologist's Cabinet I. iv. 31/2 The next Englishman to record a copepod was Henry Baker, who said..that he had found an ‘eye-sucker’ on sprat. < as lemmas |
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