| 单词 | pricklefish |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspricklefish pricklefish n. (a) a stickleback (now rare); (b) a member of the family Stephanoberycidae of small deep-sea fishes of tropical and subtropical waters, which bear spines ventrally and dorsally in front of the caudal fin and typically have toothed scales with backward-pointing spines. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Gasterosteidae > member of (stickleback) sticklinga1400 stitlingc1425 sticklebacka1475 shaftling1558 sharpling1558 stansticklea1637 hackle1655 pricklefish1668 prickling1668 jack sharp?1758 tittlebat1781 Jack Sharpnails1787 thorny-back1811 struttle1821 bandie1825 tinker1833 thornback1859 tiddler1885 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 144 Atherina..the Prickle-fish. 1834 T. Crookenden in J. Couch Illustr. Instinct (1847) xv. 250 The Pricklefish..in a large dock for shipping on the river Thames, thousands of these fish were bred some years ago. 1927 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 48 302 Prick, prickle, prickleback, prickle-fish ‘stickleback’. 1961 E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 158/2 The very spiny pricklefishes (family Stephanoberycidae) are known from two small species. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xv. 249/1 The primitive stephanoberyciforms (gibberfishes, pricklefishes, cetomimoid whalefishes) are largely deep-sea forms. < as lemmas |
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