单词 | heckleback |
释义 | † hecklebackn. Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete. The fifteen-spined or sea stickleback, Spinachia spinachia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Gasterosteidae > spinachia vulgaris (sea-stickleback) heckleback1699 sea-adder1836 sea-stickleback1880 sea-stickle1896 1699 R. Sibbald Provision for Poor iii. 23 The Sea Bream, the Sand Eel, the Hake,..the Heckleback, [etc.]. 1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross Our Fishers call it the Stronachie or Heckleback. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Heckleback, the fifteen spined Stickleback, a fish; Gasterosus spinachia... The name is evidently borrowed from its resemblance to a hackle or flax-comb. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1699 |
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