单词 | stone-fish |
释义 | > as lemmasstone-fish stone-fish n. a name for various fishes harbouring under stones (see quots.); esp. the highly venomous Synanceja verrucosa, of the family Scorpænidæ, a bottom-dwelling fish resembling a small rock, found in tropical seas and bearing venom glands at the base of the dorsal fin spines. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Blennioidei > pholis gunnellus (gunnel) stone-fish1668 butterfish1673 gunnel1686 nine-eyes1711 swordick1805 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > miscellaneous types of stone-fish1668 grouper1884 velvet fish1898 zebrafish1927 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Blennioidei > family Blenniidae > member of genus Blennius (blenny) > blennius pholis (smooth blenny) stone-fish1668 mulgronnick1673 bulcard1674 sea-lark1694 shan1713 smooth shan1713 smooth blenny1769 shanny1836 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Scorpaenidae (scorpion-fishes) > synanceja verrucosa (stone-fish) stone-fish1896 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 135 Alphestes..Belgis Stein-Fish, i.e. Stone-fish. 1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. iii. 51 Gunnellus Cornubiensium, the Butter Fish of the English; our Fishers call it the Stone-fish. 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 204 Shanny or shan:..Stone-fish, Parnell. 1896 Strand Mag. 12 354/2 Another fish that is unpleasant to meet is that known as the stone-fish. It is small,..but its bite is poisonous. Apparently, it makes its home under the pearl shell, for it is only when picking up a shell that a diver is bitten. 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. iv. 143 Beware of the stone fish.., the death adder of the sea. 1947 I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xxxv. 234 The lancet of the hideous little stone fish in his salamander coat. 1971 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 20 June 5/2 The ugliest fish in the sea (and one of the most dangerous) is the stonefish. < as lemmas |
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