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单词 monacanthid
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monacanthidadj.n.

Brit. /mɒnəˈkanθᵻd/, U.S. /ˈmɑnəˈkænθəd/
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Greek μονάκανθος , -id suffix3; Latin Monacanthidae.
Etymology: In sense A. 1 < ancient Greek μονάκανθος having a single spine or prickle ( < μονο- mono- comb. form + ἄκανθα thorn, spine: see acanthus n.) + -id suffix3. In senses A. 2 and B. < scientific Latin Monacanthidae, family name < Monacanthus , genus name (L. Oken 1817, in Isis 148 1183; < ancient Greek μονάκανθος ) + -idae (see -id suffix3). Compare French monacanthe fish with a rudimentary dorsal fin (1828).
Zoology.
A. adj.
1. Of a starfish or ossicle: having one row of ambulacral spines. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1890 Cent. Dict. Monacanthid, having uniserial adambulacral spines, as a starfish.
1909 Amer. Naturalist 43 544 Pisaster ochraceus (fig. 7), a large, coarse, five-rayed monacanthid species.
1914 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 205 217 The adambulacral ossicles are irregularly or alternately diplacanthid and monacanthid, that is, provided wuth a single spine or with two spines each.
1920 I. F. Henderson & W. D. Henderson Dict. Sci. Terms 194/1 Monacanthid, with one row of ambulacral spines, as certain Starfishes.
2. Of or relating to the family Monacanthidae (sometimes included within the family Balistidae), which comprises the filefishes.
ΚΠ
1977 Rec. W. Austral. Mus. 5 3 Three new genera and eight new species of monacanthid fishes are described from Australian seas.
1984 Ecology 65 423 Predation by monacanthid fish, which reduces the incidence of tunicates (and thus potential competition) on Pinna shells and reduces the potential role of recruitment on pier pilings.
1996 Parasite 3 49 A new species, Cableia pudica, is described from the monacanthid fishes..from reef waters around Heron Island, southern Great Barrier Reef.
B. n.
A fish of the family Monacanthidae; a filefish.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Balistidae (trigger-fish) > Balistes (file-fish)
goatfish1613
prickle1681
leather-jacket1770
unicorn file-fish1804
file-fish1815
monacanthid1977
1977 Rec. W. Austral. Mus. 5 3 A key to the genera of Australian monacanthids and a list of the known species from this region are presented.
1986 Austral. Jrnl. Marine & Freshwater Res. 37 507 The summer period was dominated by clupeoid and gobiid larvae, together with callionymids, monacanthids, platycephalids,..and a number of rarer species.
1995 Jrnl. Exper. Marine Biol. & Ecol. 194 83 Crustaceans were the dominant component in the diets of the majority..of the 88 species with non-empty guts, with five species (a girellid, a mugilid, a monacanthid and two gobiids) consuming large amounts of algal material.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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