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ˈsea-adder
[adder2.]
†1. A sea-serpent. Obs.
1601Holland Pliny vi. xxiii. 132 About these Islands [in the Persian Gulf] they might see sea-adders and serpents so monstrous great, that [etc.].
2. The Pipe-fish.
a1672Willughby Hist. Pisc. (1686) 160 Acui Aristotelis congener pisciculus, pueris Cornubiensibus Sea-Adder..dictus. 1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 202 Syngnathus... The people of Yorkshire call it the Sea-worm; but it is more generally known in England by its Cornish name of the Sea-adder. 1896tr. Boas' Text-bk. Zool. 391 The Sea-adder family (Syngnathidæ).
3. The sea-stickleback, Spinachia vulgaris.
1836Yarrell Brit. Fishes I. 87 The Fifteen-spined Stickle⁓back. Great sea adder, Cornwall. |