单词 | horse-fish |
释义 | horse-fishn. A name given to various fishes with heads more or less like that of a horse. Thesaurus » Categories » a. The carangoid fish Vomer setipinnis (also called dollar-fish or moonfish), and the allied Selene vomer. b. ‘The sauger, Stizostedion canadense. (Western U.S.)’ ( Cent. Dict.). c. The Hippocampus or seahorse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Syngnathidae (pipe-fish) > Hippocampus (sea-horse) hippocampus1576 seahorse1589 horse-fish1723 sea-beaver1755 1723 S. Morland Specimen Lat. Dict. 7 Here I shall beg leave to show the difference between the Sea-horse and Horse-fish, i.e. the Hippocampus. 1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 98 The tufted gilled fishes, represented by the pipe- and horse-fishes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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