单词 | cutlass-blade |
释义 | > as lemmascutlass-blade cutlass-blade, etc.; cutlass-proof adj.; cutlass-fish n. a name of a species of fish, the Silvery hair-tail, so called from its shape. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Trichiuroidei > [noun] > member of family Trichiuridae (hair-tail) > lepidopus caudatus (scabbard fish) frost fish1634 garter-fish1774 scale-foot1828 scabbard fish1836 cutlass-fish1884 1710 E. Ward Life Don Quixote i. ii. 26 That he conceiv'd 'twas Cutlace proof. 1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 300 The Indians constantly require..moscheates, or cutlass blades. 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 335 The name ‘Cutlass-fish’, which is current for the same species [sc. Trichiurus lepturus] in the British West Indies. 1963 P. H. Greenwood Norman's Hist. Fishes (ed. 2) ii. 14 At the other extreme are fishes with long bodies, which may be..very much compressed, as in the ..Cutlass-fishes. < as lemmas |
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