| 单词 | puffer fish |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspuffer fish 6. In full puffer fish. Any of various stout-bodied marine and freshwater globefishes, esp. of the family Tetraodontidae, which inflate themselves with water when alarmed and are sometimes used as food (although some parts are highly toxic). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Tetraodontidae (puffers) > member of (puff-fish) globe fish1668 sea-orb1774 Tetrodon1774 puff-fish1807 puffer1814 swell-fish1839 rabbitfish1842 tambour1854 swallow1876 blaasop1902 toado1943 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Diodontidae (porcupine-fishes) > member of toad-fish1612 globe fish1668 sculpin1672 sea-hedgehog1711 sea-orb1774 puff-fish1807 puffer1814 balloonfish1834 swell-fish1839 tambour1854 swallow1876 blaasop1947 1814 S. L. Mitchill Rep. Fishes N.-Y. 473 Puffer... He is called in some places, toad-fish, because his back is mottled with yellow & dark. 1842 Nat. Hist. N.Y., Zool. iv. 327 The Common Puffer... This species is scarcely ever eaten. 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I iii. 170 The Porcupine Fishes—Diodontidæ. Swell Fishes and Puffers. 1919 Bull. N.Y. Zool. Soc. 22 126/1 (title) Puffer fishes and some interesting uses of their skins. 1947 K. H. Barnard Pictorial Guide S. Afr. Fishes 209 Globe-Fishes or Puffers. Known at the Cape as Blaasops and in England and America as Puffers from their habit of ‘blowing up’ or puffing out the body. 1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. i. 3 The ovaries of the pufferfish (an excellent source of tetrodotoxin, one of the most powerful poisons known to man). 1991 Sea Frontiers Feb. 46 (caption) The unusual appears commonplace underwater: the unicornfish (Naso unicornis..) and the masked puffer (Arothron diadematus ). < as lemmas |
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