英语词汇“head-fish”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

head-fish n. †(a) an edible marine fish (not identified) found in Asian waters (obsolete rare); (b) (originally U.S.) an ocean sunfish (family Molidae), which has the appearance of consisting chiefly of a large head without a tail. [In sense (b) perhaps after scientific Latin Cephalus, former genus name of the sunfishes ( G. Shaw Gen. Zool. (1804) V. 437; < ancient Greek κεϕαλή head: see cephalo- comb. form), unless this is itself after English.]

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1811 J. Pinkerton Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. IX. xiii. 632 The head-fish is the most plentiful [fish in the seas around Siam]... Its form is nearly like that of a whiting, but much larger.

1812 Med. Repository 3rd Hexade 3 195 (heading) The cephalus, or head-fish, inhabits the waters of New-York.

1847 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1843–7 4 11 A fish found upon Squam Beach N.J. called by the fishermen the Head-fish.

1931 Copeia No. 3. 135 It has been the privilege of each of us to see a specimen of the little known sunfish or head-fish, Masturus lanceolatus.

2004 D. R. Khanna & P. R. Yadav Biol. Fishes xvi. 308 The Round-tailed Sun-fish (Mola) has a deep, circular and somewhat compressed body looking as though the tail end had been amputated.., a feature to which the popular name of ‘Head-fish’ refers.

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释义	> as lemmas head-fish head-fish n. †(a) an edible marine fish (not identified) found in Asian waters (obsolete rare); (b) (originally U.S.) an ocean sunfish (family Molidae), which has the appearance of consisting chiefly of a large head without a tail. [In sense (b) perhaps after scientific Latin Cephalus, former genus name of the sunfishes ( G. Shaw Gen. Zool. (1804) V. 437; < ancient Greek κεϕαλή head: see cephalo- comb. form), unless this is itself after English.] ΚΠ 1811 J. Pinkerton Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. IX. xiii. 632 The head-fish is the most plentiful [fish in the seas around Siam]... Its form is nearly like that of a whiting, but much larger. 1812 Med. Repository 3rd Hexade 3 195 (heading) The cephalus, or head-fish, inhabits the waters of New-York. 1847 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1843–7 4 11 A fish found upon Squam Beach N.J. called by the fishermen the Head-fish. 1931 Copeia No. 3. 135 It has been the privilege of each of us to see a specimen of the little known sunfish or head-fish, Masturus lanceolatus. 2004 D. R. Khanna & P. R. Yadav Biol. Fishes xvi. 308 The Round-tailed Sun-fish (Mola) has a deep, circular and somewhat compressed body looking as though the tail end had been amputated.., a feature to which the popular name of ‘Head-fish’ refers. extracted from headn.¹ < as lemmas
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