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单词 sea-hedgehog
释义 sea-hedgehog
1. An echinus or sea-urchin.
1602Carew Cornwall i. 32 The Sea-hedge-hogge,..is enclosed in a round shell,..garded by an vtter skinne full of prickles, as the land Vrchin.a1682Sir T. Browne Norf. Fishes Wks. 1835 IV. 333 Echinus Echinometrites sea hedgehog, whose neat shells are common on the shore.
attrib.1845Gosse Ocean iv. (1849) 259 Fragments of coral, sea-hedgehog shells, and their broken off prickles.
2. The globe-fish or other diodont fish; so called from having erectile spines.
c1711Petiver Gazophyl. vi. 60 Sea Porcupine... This thorny Fish, is a sort of Sea Hedge-hog.1879Günther in Encycl. Brit. X. 685/1 Globe-fish or Sea-Hedgehog.
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