单词 | pelican fish |
释义 | > as lemmaspelican fish pelican fish n. now rare an eel-like deep-sea fish, Eurypharynx pelecanoides (family Eurypharyngidae), having extremely large jaws with an enormous gape, thought to be kept permanently open while swimming in order to catch plankton or other organisms; also called gulper. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Saccopharyngiformes > member of gulper1873 pelican fish1883 1883 Leisure Hour 312/2 The characters of the Eurypharynx (wide-throated pelican fish) are so divided. 1892 Cent. Mag. Mar. 694 (caption) The bottle-fish and the pelican-fish. 1971 ‘A. Burgess’ MF v. 58 A pelican fish of herculean proportions. < as lemmas |
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