单词 | sea fallen star |
释义 | > as lemmassea fallen star ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Myctophiforms > [noun] > family Scopelidae > member of family Scopelidae jellyfish1707 fallen star1808 scopelidan1859 scopeloid1880 scopelid1882 serra1896 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Fallen Stars Sea Fallen Stars, Sea Lungs, an animal thrown on the sea-shore in summer and autumn; Medusa æquorea, Linn. 1841 W. H. Harvey Man. Brit. Algæ 183 Those gelatinous Medusæ which are cast ashore along the coast, and called by the country people ‘fallen stars’. 1880 M. Hunt Leaden Casket II. xxviii. 266 Here were fossils, St. Hilda's headless snakes, and brittle belemnites, and pools full of the sea's fallen stars, as the Scotch so prettily call the jelly-fish. < as lemmas |
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