单词 | crown-bone |
释义 | > as lemmascrown-bone crown-bone n. chiefly Whaling (now rare) the cranium of a whale; cf. sense 19c. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > parts of > bump or bone on head hovel1694 crown-bone1792 crown1818 1792 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 3 155 A harpoon..struck the fish in the crown-bone of the head. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 454 The upper-jaw, including the ‘crown-bone’, or skull, is bent. 1901 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 15 401 The roof..is formed of jaw-bones and crown-bones of whales, which extend from the outer wall to the central support. < as lemmas |
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