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‖ zygæna Zool.|zaɪˈdʒiːnə|
Also Zygæna.
[mod.L., ad. Gr. ζύγαινα a kind of fish, perh. the hammer-headed shark.]
a. Ichth. A fish of the genus formerly so named (now Sphyrna), comprising the hammerheaded sharks.
b. Entom. A genus of moths (also called Anthrocera), comprising the burnet-moths. Hence zyˈgænid, -idan ns., a member of the family Zygænidæ, typified by the genus Zygæna; adjs. belonging to the Zygænidæ.
1683–4[see balance-fish s.v. balance n. 22]. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) III. 34 The Dog Fish,..the Zygæna, the Tope, the Cat Fish. 1837Sir J. Richardson Fauna Bor.-Amer. IV. 301 Family Zygænidæ. Zygænidans. 1913Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 954/1 The Zygaenid moth Procris geryon. |