单词 | gill fin |
释义 | > as lemmasgill fin gill fin n. a pectoral fin. ΚΠ 1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler xii. 100 A Bull-head, with his Guill-fins cut off. 1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling ii. xliv. 162 The Piper... Below the Gill-Fins there are three Excrescences, which some call Fingers. 1833 J. E. Alexander Transatlantic Sketches I. iii. 48 In the dry season this singular fish [i.e. an armoured catfish]..has been dug out of the ground.., for it burrows in the rains, owing to the strength and power of the spine and gill-fin. 1991 A. Kenny Before Wax Hardened vi. 69 He hung halfway up the white fall, threshing his tail and beating his gill fins like wings, but fell back down into the foam. < as lemmas |
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