单词 | mud eel |
释义 | > as lemmasmud eel mud eel n. an elongate creature inhabiting muddy water; esp. (a) a salamander, Siren lacertina (family Sirenidae), of the south-eastern United States; (b) a larval lamprey. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superclass Agnatha > [noun] > suborder Petromyzontoidei or genus Petromyzon > member of (lamprey) > at certain stage of growth lampret1656 mud iguana1767 mud eel1774 ammocœte1859 1774 J. R. Forster Resol. Jrnl. (1982) IV. 604 Very fine Mud-Eel..were caught this morning. 1823 Charleston (S. Carolina) Courier 7 Mar. 2/4 The British..fairly chased our militiamen across Broad River, to the huge amazement of the mud eels and cats. 1840 Boston Jrnl. Nat. Hist. 3 473 Ammocoetes concolor Kirtland. The Mud-eel. 1895 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 1894 17 337 Amphiuma means..is known under the name of ‘mud eel’. 1938 R. Schrenkeisen Field Bk. Fresh-water Fishes N. Amer. 5 The young [of Petromyzon marinus]..are called ‘mud-eels’. 1948 V. Palmer Golconda xxi. 177 This big trollop of a woman, he was thinking. She had no more decent feeling than a mud-eel. 1994 Buzzworm (Nexis) Jan. 26 You might try first on mud eels in Korea, which are plentiful, rather than experiment with an animal that's got its back against the wall. < as lemmas |
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