| 单词 | grey nurse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrey nurse grey nurse n. (also more fully grey nurse shark) a large shark, Carcharias taurus, of warm coastal waters worldwide; also called sand tiger. ΚΠ 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. xii. 390 The ‘school-shark’ is dealt with as above. But if the ‘grey-nurse’, or old solitary shark be hooked, the cable is cut [etc.]. 1917 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 589/2 The gray nurse, like the white shark, is noted for its daring ferocity. 1969 Man (Austral.) Mar. 12/2 There's even been grey nurse hooked here, and a blue marlin that had been hunted over from the deep-sea beds. 2004 Winnipeg Free Press 29 June a12 An Australian diver..says he speared a grey nurse shark in self-defence. grey nurse Any of various dogfishes or sharks; (now) esp. (more fully grey nurse) the Australian shark Odontaspis arenarius (family Odontaspididae) of shallow inshore waters.See also nursehound n., nurse shark n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > family Orectolobidae > member of (carpet shark) nurse1499 nurse-fish1682 zebra shark1804 nurse shark1851 wobbegong1852 sleeper1884 carpet shark1929 the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > family Scyliorhinidae > member of genus Scyliorhinus (rock-fish) > scyliorhinus stellaris nurse1499 rough hound1602 nurse-fish1682 bouncea1705 nursehound1848 rock salmon1928 dogfish1931 1499 Promptorium Parvulorum (Pynson) sig. livv/1 Nusse, fisshe. a1584 S. Borough in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 321 There we gate a great Nuse, which Nuses were there [i.e. near Nova Zembla] so plentie, that they would scarcely suffer any other fish to come neere the hookes. 1599 T. Nashe Prayse Red Herring sig. Hiv The whale, the sea horse, the Norse, the wasserman, the Dolphin. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. i. 25 The Fish near the Island are Sharks, Sword Fishes and Nurses... The Nurse is just like a Shark, only its skin is rougher. 1711 C. Lockyer Acct. Trade India 279 Small parcels of sherk's fins, nurses skins and tariands very reasonable. a1757 P. H. Bruce Memoirs (1782) 424 They make plenty of oil from the nurses,..and a beneficial whale fishery might be established here. 1851 P. H. Gosse Naturalist's Sojourn Jamaica 243 The Nurse is of a dull brown hue on the upper parts, without spots. 1951 Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Apr. 14/2 It's not a dog-shark; it's a young grey-nurse and they're man-eaters. 1983 G. Lord Tooth & Claw vi. 44 They wandered into the aquarium... Through the surrounding thick glass walls, the blunt head of a seven-foot grey nurse nosed only inches from where the two were standing. < as lemmas |
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