| 单词 | foxfish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfox-fish fox-fish n. see 5. fox-fish a. Some animal or fish likened to a fox, esp. the gemmeous dragonet ( Callionymus lyra), called also fox-fish. flying fox, sea fox: see those words. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Callionymoidei (dragonets) > callionymus lyra (gemmeous dragonet) illeck1602 fox1611 goldeneyc1680 yellow gurnard1705 gemmeous dragonet1765 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Spase, ..the sea-fox, or fox dog-fish. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxiv. 169 Some are called the Fox, the Dog, the Sparrow, or Frog-fish. View more context for this quotation 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 302 These fish [sc. carp] are extremely cunning, and on that account are by some styled the river fox. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 302 Fox..The common Skulpin. < as lemmas |
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