trygonn.
/ˈtrʌɪɡɒn/ A fish with a sharp spine in its tail, a sting-ray.
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > member of family Dasyatidae (sting-ray)
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Trygon, the Turtle-Dove.]
1749 G. West tr. Pindar Odes (1753) I. 258 And by my Dart the Lord of Ithaca, Not by the pois'nous Trygon's Bone expir'd.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 260 Circe armed her son with a spear headed with the spine of the trygon.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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