| 单词 | nettlefish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnettlefish nettlefish n. a stinging jellyfish (cf. sense 3). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish) nettle1601 sea-nettle1601 blubber1602 nettlefish1611 red nettle1611 squalder1659 sea-jellya1682 urticaa1682 carvel1688 sea-qualm1694 sea-bleb1700 acaleph1706 sea-blubber1717 Medusa1752 quarla1820 acalephan1834 medusite1838 jellyfish1841 naked-eyed medusa1848 slobber1849 sea-cross1850 sea-danger1850 sun squall1853 discophore1856 medusoid1856 starch1860 Discophoran1876 jelly1882 sea-blub1885 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Ortica,..a fish which pricketh as a Nettle, and as soone as he is touched changeth his colour, called a Sea-nettle, or Nettle-fish. 1858 J. Harper Sea-side Aquarium iv. 45 A fine little specimen of the Medusa, or, as it is more familiarly known, a Sea-blubber, or Nettle-fish. 1884 J. T. Rothrock Vac. Cruising Chesapeake & Delaware Bays iii. 93 As I watched the water,..one of the ‘nettle-fish’ (jelly-fish) passed by, slowly drifting out with the tide. 1890 Cent. Dict. Nettle-fish, a jelly-fish; a sea-nettle: so called from its stinging or urticating. 1922 Outers' Recreation Apr. 318/2 This prickly heat fish is called the nettlefish. 1969 M. C. Harris & N. Shure All about Allergy i. 4 He and his associates were..studying the cause of the hives produced by the Portuguese man-of-war, a species of nettlefish, or jellyfish. 2001 J. S. Harker Birth & Growth Royal N.Z. Navy xxiv. 461 Every medusal polyp and nettle-fish in the Inland Sea had been blown into Wakayama Bay. < as lemmas |
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