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单词 armour-fish
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armour-fish
armour-fish n. any of various extant or fossil fishes having the body partly protected by bony scales or plates. [In quot. 1747 apparently after Chinese †zhòujiă yú, denoting an unidentified kind of fish ( < †zhòujiă full armour, lit. ‘helmet-armour’ + fish).] In quot. 1748, probably a catfish of the family Doradidae.
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1747 New Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. IV. 316/1 One is called Cho-kya-yu, that is the Armour-Fish, because its Back, Belly, and Sides, are covered with sharp Scales, placed in strait Rows.
1748 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 45 170 Cataphractus Americanus, the Armour-Fish..less than a Foot in length, and four Inches broad.
1883 Amer. Naturalist 17 481 These ‘armor-fish’ [i.e. armoured catfishes] remind one of the old Devonian and Carboniferous ganoids.
1952 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 6) 536 Ostracoderms (e.g., armor fishes, now wholly extinct) are among the very simplest of vertebrates.
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