| 单词 | mail-cheeked |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmail-cheeked mail-cheeked adj. designating fishes of the order Scorpaeniformes (which includes the scorpionfishes, gurnards, and sculpins), which are distinguished by a suborbital bony ridge extending across the cheek to the pre-operculum. ΚΠ 1888 Amer. Naturalist 22 356 A recent study of the mail-cheeked fishes has led to some interesting and unexpected results. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 545/2 The ‘Mail-cheeked’ Acanthopterygians include a great variety of forms, mostly living in the sea. 1961 E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 248/2 (heading) Scorpaenoid or mailcheeked fishes. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xv. 251/2 Most [scorpaeniforms] have spines projecting from different bones on the head, including a posteriorly directed spine derived from a bone below the eye, giving them the name ‘mail-cheeked fishes’. < as lemmas |
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