sea-swallown.
1. = flying fish n. [After Latin hirundo (Pliny).]
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Exocoetidae (flying fish)
flying fish?c1510
rearmouse1598
sea-swallow1598
sea-kite1601
swallow-fish1601
sea-bat1611
swallow1668
sea-hawka1717
wing-fish1855
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > member of Dactylopteridae (flying gurnards)
flying fish?c1510
sea-swallow1598
sea-kite1601
swallow-fish1601
sea-bat1611
swallow1668
sea-hawka1717
batfish1848
wing-fish1855
flying gurnard1882
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A sea swallow, or a sea reare-mouse.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. xxvi. 249 The sea Swallow flieth: and it resembleth in all points the bird so called.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Arondelle de mer, the flying fish called the sea Bat, or sea Swallow.
1664 R. Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 19 A great flying-fish or Sea Swallow.
1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling ii. liii. 171 The Flying-Fish or Sea-Swallow..is very common between the Tropicks.
1844 Linsley Fishes Connecticut in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 47 59 Dactylopterus volitans, Cuv., Sea Swallow, Long Island Sound.
2. (a) A name for any one of the terns (from their general resemblance to swallows). (b) The stormy petrel, Procellaria pelagica. (c) An edible swiftlet of the genus Collocalia, found in south-east Asia.
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Hydrobatidae > procellaria pelagica (stormy petrel)
devil's bird1634
sea-swallow1647
storm-finch1661
assilag1698
storm-bird1752
devil bird1759
Mother Carey's chicken1767
storm finch1768
witch1770
alamootiea1777
stormy petrel1776
water witch1794
spency1813
storm-petrel1833
stilt stormy petrel1884
Tom Tailor1885
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Sterna (tern)
stern1609
sternet1638
sea-swallow1647
tern1678
rittock1774
mackerel gull1792
gull-teaser1802
kip1802
rippock1806
kingbird1831
pirr1875
the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Apodidae > member of genus Collocalia > collocalia inexpectata
sea-swallow1647
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. (Birds) A Sea-Swallow, een zee-swaluwe.
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 90 Hirundo Marina, the Sea-Swallow.
1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ 269 Larus Piscator Aldrov... The lesser Sea-Swallow.
1734 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds II. Pl. 88 The greater Sea Swallow.
1831 M. Russell Hist. Egypt (1832) xi. §3. 484 The Sterna Nilotica, or Egyptian sea-swallow.
1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds V. 460 Thalassidroma pelagica. The Common Storm-Petrel... Sea Swallow.
1887 H. Caine Deemster I. vii. 155 The sea swallow shot over him too, with its low mournful cry.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 310/2 Animals of economic value [in Borneo] are the sea-swallows, whose edible nests are prized as the best in the archipelago.
3. The trepang or bêche-de-mer. [= Dutch zeezwaluw; but the second element represents the Malay name swālā.]
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > order Actinopoda > member of genus Holothuria
sea-slug1779
swallo1779
trepang1783
sea-swallow1802
bêche-de-mer1814
cotton-fish1851
cotton-spinner1908
1802 Naval Chron. 8 380 Sea swallow (called beach de mar by the Portuguese, and trepong by the Malays).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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