单词 | glutinous hag |
释义 | > as lemmasglutinous hag glutinous hag n. now rare the Atlantic hagfish, Myxine glutinosa, which has the ability to secrete large quantities of thick mucus from glands along its sides. ΚΠ 1777 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) IV. Index of Plates sig. b2 Class VI. Worms... 15. Glutinous Hag. 1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 130 This creature, ‘the glutinous hag’, or, according to north-country fishermen, the ‘ramper-eel,’ or ‘poison-ramper,’ was regarded by Linnæus as belonging, not to the class of fishes, but to the vermes. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xvi. 425 The Glutinous Hag..has seven pairs of peculiar gill-pockets, very unlike the ordinary gills of fishes; and its gristly skeleton is of the most primitive type. < as lemmas |
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