sea-piken.1
One of various fishes, as (a) a gar-fish, esp. the common gar-fish or gar-pike, Belone vulgaris; (b) any fish of the family Sphyrænidæ, esp. the genus Sphyræna; (c) the hake, Merlucius vulgaris; (d) a fish of the family Centropomidæ, of tropical America, esp. Centropomus undecimalis (Cent. Dict. 1891).
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Centropomidae (snook)
sea-pike1601
snook1697
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > merlucius or hake
hake1225
luce of the sea1598
sea-pike1601
Jacka1625
whiting1735
beard1758
stockfish1823
sea-luce1880–4
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Sphyraenoidei (barracudas) > family Sphyraenidae > member of
pike1601
sea-pike1601
sphyraena1849
sphyraenoid1851
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Belonidae (gar-fish)
horn-fishOE
hornkeckc1425
garfishc1440
horn-stocka1485
green-bone1525
hornbeak1565
thorn-beak1570
horn-back1598
needlefish1601
spit-fish1601
sea-needle1603
ganefish1611
snacot-fish1611
greenbacka1682
bill-fisha1757
gar1767
sea-pike1769
saury1771
gar-pike1776
sea-snipea1832
mackerel guide1835
long-nose1836
gore-fish1839
gorebill1862
mackerel-scout1880
Long Tom1881
snipe-eel1882
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxii. ii. 427 The sea pike Lupus.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Peis escome, the sea Pike, or Spit-fish.
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 136 Sphyræna..Lucius Marinus, the Sea-Pike, or Spitt-Fish.
1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 275 The common sea pike, or sea needle, sometimes grows to the length of three feet, or more.
1811 P. Neill in Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. 1 541 Esox..Belone, Sea-pike; Gar-pike.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 294 Sphyræna, the Sea Pike, which has been confounded with the Esox or True Pike.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Bill-fish, (Belone truncata) a small sea-fish... Also called Sea-pike.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 301 Merluccius vulgaris... The hake,..or sea-pike.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Sea-Pike, a fish of New South Wales, Lanioperca mordax Günth., of the family Sphyrænidæ.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
sea-piken.2
A trident.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > 2 or 3-pronged spear
fuskin?1578
bident1675
trident1693
sea-pike1870
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad II. xv. 109 He bore A sea-pike two and twenty cubits long.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.11601n.21870- squamoso-radiate
- squamoso-temporal
- squamoso-zygomatic
- squamosodentated
- squamosoimbricated
- squamosomaxillary
- squamosoparietal
- squamosoradiate
- squamosotemporal
- squamosozygomatic
- squamosphenoidal
- squamotemporal
- squamous
- squamous bone
- squamous part
- squamous portion
- squamous-celled
- squamouscelled
- squished
- squishes
- squishier
- squishiest
- squishiness
- squishinesses
- squishing