单词 | belone |
释义 | Belonen. A marine fish of the genus Belone or family Belonidae; a needlefish, a garfish (see garfish n.).Valid publication of the genus name: Cuvier Règne animal (1817) II. 185. Now rare except as a scientific Latin genus name. ΚΠ 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 978 Shee goes and gathers a number of bones of the fish called Belone [Fr. aiguille; Gk. βελόνης], that is to say, a Needle. ?1787 W. F. Mavor New Dict. Nat. Hist. I. at Acus Acus is likewise used by some authors to signify the belone, or paphix. 1843 R. Hamilton Nat. Hist. Brit. Fishes (Naturalist's Libr.: Ichthyol. VI) II. 102 When the Belone bites, he draws the float down violently once, and then seems quietly to resign himself to his fate. 1866 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. I. 306 In Upeneus the superficial branch is sent off, dorsad, at an open angle from the main trunk, to the lateral line, above which it runs in the Belone. 1902 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 45 580 It would be extremely difficult to find any feature of importance in which the two crania differed, for in the Belone all the roofing bones are sculptured. 1948 R. Winstedt Malaya & its Hist. xii. 120 From the Johore causeway Malays on a breezy day will angle for the belone (of the garfish tribe) with a kite from which dangles a line with a baited noose. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1603 |
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