单词 | stone-biter |
释义 | > as lemmasstone-biter stone-biter n. (a) the hawfinch; (b) Orkney and Shetland the common catfish or wolf-fish [= Icelandic steinbítr, Danish stenbider, Norwegian steinbit, Dutch steenbijter (Kilian)] . ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Blennioidei > anarrhicas lupus (wolf-fish) sea-wolf1390 wolf's-foot1443 wolf-fish1569 swine-fish1598 sea-cat1601 catfish1620 stone-biter1731 rock salmon1831 swine1844 Murray catfish1873 rock eel1969 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Coccothraustes (hawfinch) clot-bird1544 cherry-cracker1587 hawfinch1673 stone-biter1731 clodhopper1834 cherry-finch1865 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 157 There are in the Cape countries great numbers of Haw-Finches... They are call'd likewise Stone-Biters. 1744 Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 612 Other Fish, as Sharks, Holly-butts,..Stone-biters. < as lemmas |
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