单词 | hornbeak |
释义 | hornbeakn. Now dialect. The garfish or hornfish, Belone vulgaris, which has extremely long and slender tapering jaws. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Belonidae (gar-fish) horn-fishOE hornkeckc1425 garfishc1440 horn-stocka1485 green-bone1525 hornbeak1565 thorn-beak1570 horn-back1598 needlefish1601 spit-fish1601 sea-needle1603 ganefish1611 snacot-fish1611 greenbacka1682 bill-fisha1757 gar1767 sea-pike1769 saury1771 gar-pike1776 sea-snipea1832 mackerel guide1835 long-nose1836 gore-fish1839 gorebill1862 mackerel-scout1880 Long Tom1881 snipe-eel1882 1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Acus, a fish..of some called a hornebeake. 1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario G iij b To seeth the Horne~beeke or Pipe fish. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 266 The Horne-beaks or Needle-fishes, Belonæ..haue within them so great egs that their wombe cleaueth and openeth when they should lay them. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Horn~beak, a kind of Fish. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 442. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < |
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