| 释义 |
ˈsea-beaver
†1. = hippocampus 2. Obs.
1755tr. Pontoppidan's Nat. Hist. Norway ii. 51 The Sea-Beaver is another and larger Insect, peculiar to the sea... Called in the Mediterranean Hippocampus.
2. The sea-otter.
1759Dumaresque in Phil. Trans. LI. 488 Many of them go thither, to catch sea-beavers. 1764J. Grieve tr. Krasheninnikoff's Kamtschatka 130 The sea beavers [Lutra marina] have not the least resemblance to the other beavers. |