单词 | trigger-fish |
释义 | > as lemmastrigger-fish trigger-fish n. a fish of the family Balistidæ; so called because the large first ray of the dorsal fin is depressed by depression of the second, like the hammer of a gun-lock by the trigger. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Balistidae (trigger-fish) old wife1585 trigger-fish1849 queen triggerfish1906 1849 H. Melville Mardi I. xlviii. 131 The rank and file of the Trigger-fish—so called from their quaint dorsal fins being set in their backs with a conical curve, as if at half-cock. 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Trigger-fish. 1884 Longman's Mag. Mar. 529 Trigger-fish and trunk-fish. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 3 Oct. 6/1 It penetrates into the body of the oyster in the expectation of its host being broken up and eaten by the trigger-fish. < as lemmas |
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