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单词 rough-tail
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rough-tail
rough-tail n. (a) any of various fishes; (b) = rough-tailed snake n. at Compounds 5b(c).
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1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 234 Rough-taile [= the horse mackerel]..is a dry fish and engendreth thick juyce.
1854 C. D. Yonge tr. Athenæus Deipnosophists II. vii. 513 Another fish is the trachurus, or rough-tail. Diocles mentions this as a dry fish.
1854 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 13 27 The only specimen we have seen of this very large Rough-tail [sc. a snake] is one procured..from Kerinday near Matura.
1907 Imperial Gazetteer India (new ed.) I. v. 269 One whole family of small snakes, the Rough Tails (Uropeltidae),..is confined to Southern India and Ceylon.
2002 Sport Fishing June 28/2 The current world-record roughtail [sc. a stingray] weighed 405 pounds.
2007 M. O'Shea Boas & Pythons World 71/2 Shieldtails, also known as rough-tails, thorntails or earthsnakes, are fossorial (burrowing) snakes.
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