单词 | long-finned |
释义 | long-finnedadj. Having a long fin or fins. Chiefly in the names of fishes and other aquatic animals (cf. longfin adj.). ΚΠ 1779 Museum Humfredianum 126 The blue or long-finned shark. 1831 Olio 26 Nov. 307/1 A sailor..had been leaning over the taffrail, watching the motions and movements of the long-finned monsters. 1861 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands II. 100 Germon. Long-finned Tunny. 1905 East London Daily Disp. (S. Afr.) 4 July 2 The commonest fish found are rock cod,..parrot-fish, long-finned dory. 1950 Tuatara 3 43 [Griffin established] the names Anguilla dieffenbachii for the commonly called ‘long-finned’ eel and A. australis schmidtii for the ‘short-finned’ eel. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes ii. 15/2 Large, long-finned individuals, the so-called Allison tuna, were known asThunnus or Neothunnus allisoni. 2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. 20/1 Antarctic Long-Finned Whale, Unknown cetacean of the Antarctic. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1779 |
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