| 单词 | swine-fish | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasswine-fish   swine-fish  n.				 [originally after Italian pesce porco (1576 or earlier)]			 any of several marine fishes or mammals thought to resemble a pig; spec.		 (a) the common or harbour porpoise,  Phocoena phocoena (cf. hogfish n., sea-swine n.) (now rare);		 (b) Scottish (Orkney) the wolf fish,  Anarrhichas lupus (apparently so called from the movements of its mouth or nostrils); cf. sense  3b. 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 1598    J. Florio Worlde of Wordes  				Pesce porco, a hogge or swine fish. 1805    G. Barry Hist. Orkney  iii. i. 294  				The Wolf-Fish, (anarhichas lupus, Lin. Syst.), here the swine-fish, an ugly animal, is often found in our seas. 1863    J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. 		(new ed.)	 III. 351  				The Chequered Swine-fish is one of the singular species which are so frequent in the hotter seas. 1910    Brit. Sea Anglers' Soc. Q. Mar. 15  				In Orkney, the fishermen term it swine-fish, from the muscular motion of its nostrils which they say resembles the working of the nose of a pig. 1996    M. Flaws  & G. Lamb Orkney Dict.  				Swinefish, the wolf fish. < as lemmas | 
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