cruyshagen.
Error for Dutch cruyshaye, a species of shark (Marggraf Hist. Rerum Nat. Brasil., 1648, 181) = kruis cross + haai shark.In 1864 Webster, and some later dictionaries.
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1648 G. Marggraf Historiae Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae p. 132.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Cruyshage,..the name of a fish of the shark kind, somewhat approaching to that strange fish the zygæna: but much less monstrous, its head being only triangular, or something like the figure of an heart…
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Cruyshage, a fish of the shark kind, having a triangular head and mouth.
1860 W. Baird Dict. Nat. Hist.
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