| 单词 | starch-fish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstarch-fish starch-fish n. English regional (southern) (now historical and rare) a jellyfish (see sense 2b). ΚΠ 1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side v. 326 At Dovor they [sc. jelly-fishes] are very generally called Starch-fishes. 1899 Hampshire Tel. 30 Sept. 12/4 One of those horrid bags of jelly—a starch fish—stung the swimmer's shoulder. 1994 L. M. Swinburne in H. Walker Look & Feel 220 Frog-spawn was sometimes called starch because of its resemblance to the gel and starch-fish was an old name for jelly-fish. < as lemmas |
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