| 单词 | finger fish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfinger fish finger fish n. (a) any small fish approximately the size of a person's finger; †(b) a starfish; cf. five-finger n. 2 (obsolete); (c) any of various fishes with long narrow fins, esp. moonfishes of the genus Monodactylus, popular in aquaria. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Asteroidea > member of (starfish) starfish1538 sea-pad1558 sea-star1569 star1569 pad1613 finger fish1709 sea-sun1731 stelleridan1835 stelliridean1837 asteroid1841 sand-star1841 spoon-worm1841 sun star1841 sun starfish1850 Stellerid1882 stelleroid1900 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 162 Finger-Fish are very plentiful in this Country; they are of the Length of a Man's Finger, and lie in the Bottom of the Water about one or two Foot deep. 1794 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. (new ed.) 178 Vermes... Star Fish, or Finger Fish. Asterias.—Three or four species. 1826 Encycl. Londiniensis XXI. 98/1 Polynemus lineatus, the lineated finger-fish: appendages five, reaching to the anus. 1872 S. R. Crocker tr. L. Figuier Tomorrow of Death xvi. 222 The madrepore will remain as indifferent to the elements as the shingle on which the finger-fish spreads his four marble arms. 1961 E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 193/2 Family Monodactylidae. The fingerfishes, of which there are about five species, live in both salt and fresh water. 2006 Trop. Fish Nov. 29/3 Striped Finger fish [sc. Monodactylus sebae] are no more difficult to maintain than your average community fish. 2010 A. D. Livingston Cold-smoking & Salt-curing Meat, Fish, & Game ii. 31 If you've got real anchovies, you're in business. Also, such finger fish as smelts, shiners, and sand lances will do. < as lemmas |
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