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sephen|ˈsɛfɛn|
Also sephin.
[a. mod.L. sephen (specific name), a. Arab. safan shagreen.]
A kind of sting-ray. Also attrib.
1854Badham Halieut. 460 The Red Sea swarms with divers kinds of huge sharks and skate... The sephin is one of its own children. 1879Simmonds Commerc. Prod. Sea 262 Galuchat or Sephen skin, from the back of the Hypolophus Sephen and Trygon Sephen Cloq. Ibid., The best galuchat, or what we should call shagreen, is made from the skin of the sephen, which abounds in the Mediterranean Sea. |