| 单词 | balloonfish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasballoonfish balloonfish n. any of various puffer fishes (families Tetraodontidae and Diodontidae). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Diodontidae (porcupine-fishes) > member of toad-fish1612 globe fish1668 sculpin1672 sea-hedgehog1711 sea-orb1774 puff-fish1807 puffer1814 balloonfish1834 swell-fish1839 tambour1854 swallow1876 blaasop1947 1834 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom X. 579 From the faculty they [sc. the Diodontes] possess of distending their bodies with air, these fishes have received the vulgar name of..balloon-fish. 1867 Harper's Mag. Mar. 476/2 Billy and I were flattening our noses against the abode of the balloon-fish, and determining whether he looked most like a horse-chestnut burr or a ripe cucumber. 1930 C. M. Yonge Year on Great Barrier Reef 88 The most remarkable is the ‘toado’ or balloon fish. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xix. 344/1 Balloonfish, in response to attacks by fishes or birds, increase their volume threefold by pumping water or air into their stomachs. < as lemmas |
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