An alleged fish of the Ganges, able to seize and destroy elephants.
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释义 | the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > types of mythical fish (5) verme1572 An alleged fish of the Ganges, able to seize and destroy elephants. scolopendra1590 A fabulous sea-fish which ‘feeling himselfe taken with a hooke, casteth out his bowels, vntill hee hath vnloosed the hooke, and then swalloweth them… land-fish1609 (a) ? freshwater fish; (b) a fish that lives on land; hence, an unnatural creature. scolopender1658 = scolopendra, n. 1. Obsolete. wyver-fish1857 some chimerical fish. |
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