batfishn.

Brit.

/ˈbatfɪʃ/, U.S.

/ˈbætfɪʃ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bat n.¹, fish n.¹

Etymology: < bat n.¹ + fish n.¹In sense 1 used of fishes with broad horizontal fins likened to the wings of a bat; in sense 2 used of fishes with vertical fins perhaps similarly regarded (compare scientific Latin Chaetodon vespertilio (Bloch 1787) = Platax orbicularis). With sense 3 compare water bat n. at water n. Compounds 8c and the Latin name given there (the fish, having a large head, small body, and arm-like fins, was perhaps thought to resemble a bat on the ground).

†a. Chiefly Caribbean (Barbados) and U.S. A flying gurnard, Dactylopterus volitans (family Dactylopteridae), of warm temperate Atlantic and Mediterranean waters, having greatly enlarged pectoral fins resembling wings, which it expands to deter predators. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > member of Dactylopteridae (flying gurnards)

flying fish?c1510

sea-swallow1598

sea-kite1601

swallow-fish1601

sea-bat1611

swallow1668

sea-hawka1717

batfish1848

wing-fish1855

flying gurnard1882

1848 R. H. Schomburgk Hist. Barbados iii. v. 667 Dactylopterus volitans... The Bat Fish. This fish, which is very common in the Mediterranean, is rare in the West Indies.

1898 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Fishes N. & Middle Amer. (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 47) ii. 2183 Flying Robin; Bat-fish... Atlantic Ocean, on both coasts; very abundant on South Atlantic and Gulf coasts; a handsome and singular fish.

1905 T. Gill in Ann. Rep. Board Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1904 509 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (58th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. 430, Pt. 1) CVI Bat-fish is a designation for the common Dactylopterid of the Atlantic in Barbados.

b. Any of various eagle rays; esp. (chiefly U.S.) the bat ray, Myliobatis californica. Now rare.

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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > member of family Myliobatidae

sea-hawk1655

sea-eagle1722

miller1836

eagle ray1841

batfish1850

myliobatid1859

eagle-skate1869

1850 F. P. Parlby Wanderings of Pilgrim II. lxiii. 380 I purchased a saw-fish, a sting-ray, or bat-fish, a sea-porcupine, a halfmoon-fish, and some others.

1882 U.S. National Mus. Bull. 16 51 M[yliobatis] californicus... California Sting Ray; Batfish... The wings anteriorly convex... San Francisco southward; very common on the Pacific coast.

1920 Univ. S. Calif. Bull. Jan. 12 Myliobatus californicus (The Bat Fish).

1957 ‘J. Crompton’ Living Sea 134 There are only about a dozen species [of Eagle Ray] of which the best known are: (1) The American Eagle Ray,..(2) The Californian Bat Fish, which is numerous in the mud flats off California, and (3) The Common Eagle Sea Ray.

a. Any of various fishes of the Indo-Pacific region with deep, laterally compressed bodies, often with vertically expanded fins, esp. (a) a reef fish of the genus Platax (family Ephippidae); (b) (originally Australian) the moonfish Monodactylus argenteus (family Monodactylidae), of mainly brackish waters (also more fully silver batfish).

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Ephippidae (spade-fishes) > member of

light horseman1827

batfish1851

sea-bat1880

angelfish1888

1851 T. C. Jerdon in Madras Jrnl. Lit. & Sci. 16 133 Platax... Both called by the same name which means bat fish.

1864 Reader 10 Dec. 745/1 Mr. Moore also exhibited a stuffed specimen of the bat-fish, Platax vespertilio.

1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales ii. 18 Psettus argenteus, Linn. ‘Bat-fish’.

1905 D. S. Jordan Guide Study of Fishes II. 401 The best-known species is the tsuzume or batfish (Platax orbicularis).

1925 Austral. Encycl. I. 144/1 The Silver Batfish (Monodactylus argenteus)..is common on Australian coasts, extending southward to Sydney.

1987 Queensland Naturalist 28 18 During a visit to Fraser Island, on 27th April 1987, seven batfish (M. argenteus) were caught on a 3.0kg line.

2004 D. Dalton Rough Guide Philippines 312 Most of the Philippines' 450 species of coral can be found here..along with hundreds of species of smaller reef fishes such as angelfish, batfish, surgeonfish and jacks.

b. Chiefly New Zealand. A pomfret, Pteraclis velifera (family Bramidae), found from South Africa to New Zealand, having greatly expanded dorsal and anal fins.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Bramidae (pomfrets) > member of (pomfret)

sea-bream1710

toothed gilthead1776

breamflat1836

Ray's bream1836

pomfret1890

batfish1927

1927 W. J. Phillipps Bibliogr. N.Z. Fishes 35 Pteraclis velifera... Batfish.

1967 S. Natusch Animals N.Z. 221 Family Pteraclidae is represented by the extraordinary batfish.

1981 N.Z. Jrnl. Zool. 8 25/1 Ray's bream (Brama brama) and the bat fish (Pteraclis velifera) have previously been recorded from New Zealand.

3. Any of various anglerfishes of the family Ogcocephalidae of tropical and temperate seas, which use their large arm-like pectoral and smaller pelvic fins for walking on the sea floor.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Lophiiformes (anglers) > [noun] > member of family Ogcocephalidae (sea-bat)

water bat1681

sea-bat1756

nose-fish1828

sea-unicorna1832

batfish1861

1861 T. Gill Catal. Fishes Eastern Coast N. Amer. 47 Malthea vespertilio Cuv. ‘Bat Fish’.

1933 J. N. Gowanloch Fishes & Fishing Louisiana ii. 292 The Batfish..seems much more like a grotesque medieval fancy than an actual fish.

1996 M. Snyderman & C. Wiseman Guide Marine Life: Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida 223/2 Batfishes take advantage of their well-camouflaged bodies while manipulating their lure to gain the attention of a variety of small, curious fishes.

2004 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 26 Jan. 22 The blobfish is considered one of the world's ugliest creatures, along with the naked mole rat, the red-lipped batfish and the warthog.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	batfish
释义	batfishn. Brit. /ˈbatfɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈbætfɪʃ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bat n.¹, fish n.¹ Etymology: < bat n.¹ + fish n.¹In sense 1 used of fishes with broad horizontal fins likened to the wings of a bat; in sense 2 used of fishes with vertical fins perhaps similarly regarded (compare scientific Latin Chaetodon vespertilio (Bloch 1787) = Platax orbicularis). With sense 3 compare water bat n. at water n. Compounds 8c and the Latin name given there (the fish, having a large head, small body, and arm-like fins, was perhaps thought to resemble a bat on the ground). 1. †a. Chiefly Caribbean (Barbados) and U.S. A flying gurnard, Dactylopterus volitans (family Dactylopteridae), of warm temperate Atlantic and Mediterranean waters, having greatly enlarged pectoral fins resembling wings, which it expands to deter predators. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > member of Dactylopteridae (flying gurnards) flying fish?c1510 sea-swallow1598 sea-kite1601 swallow-fish1601 sea-bat1611 swallow1668 sea-hawka1717 batfish1848 wing-fish1855 flying gurnard1882 1848 R. H. Schomburgk Hist. Barbados iii. v. 667 Dactylopterus volitans... The Bat Fish. This fish, which is very common in the Mediterranean, is rare in the West Indies. 1898 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Fishes N. & Middle Amer. (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 47) ii. 2183 Flying Robin; Bat-fish... Atlantic Ocean, on both coasts; very abundant on South Atlantic and Gulf coasts; a handsome and singular fish. 1905 T. Gill in Ann. Rep. Board Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1904 509 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (58th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. 430, Pt. 1) CVI Bat-fish is a designation for the common Dactylopterid of the Atlantic in Barbados. b. Any of various eagle rays; esp. (chiefly U.S.) the bat ray, Myliobatis californica. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > member of family Myliobatidae sea-hawk1655 sea-eagle1722 miller1836 eagle ray1841 batfish1850 myliobatid1859 eagle-skate1869 1850 F. P. Parlby Wanderings of Pilgrim II. lxiii. 380 I purchased a saw-fish, a sting-ray, or bat-fish, a sea-porcupine, a halfmoon-fish, and some others. 1882 U.S. National Mus. Bull. 16 51 M[yliobatis] californicus... California Sting Ray; Batfish... The wings anteriorly convex... San Francisco southward; very common on the Pacific coast. 1920 Univ. S. Calif. Bull. Jan. 12 Myliobatus californicus (The Bat Fish). 1957 ‘J. Crompton’ Living Sea 134 There are only about a dozen species [of Eagle Ray] of which the best known are: (1) The American Eagle Ray,..(2) The Californian Bat Fish, which is numerous in the mud flats off California, and (3) The Common Eagle Sea Ray. 2. a. Any of various fishes of the Indo-Pacific region with deep, laterally compressed bodies, often with vertically expanded fins, esp. (a) a reef fish of the genus Platax (family Ephippidae); (b) (originally Australian) the moonfish Monodactylus argenteus (family Monodactylidae), of mainly brackish waters (also more fully silver batfish). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Ephippidae (spade-fishes) > member of light horseman1827 batfish1851 sea-bat1880 angelfish1888 1851 T. C. Jerdon in Madras Jrnl. Lit. & Sci. 16 133 Platax... Both called by the same name which means bat fish. 1864 Reader 10 Dec. 745/1 Mr. Moore also exhibited a stuffed specimen of the bat-fish, Platax vespertilio. 1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales ii. 18 Psettus argenteus, Linn. ‘Bat-fish’. 1905 D. S. Jordan Guide Study of Fishes II. 401 The best-known species is the tsuzume or batfish (Platax orbicularis). 1925 Austral. Encycl. I. 144/1 The Silver Batfish (Monodactylus argenteus)..is common on Australian coasts, extending southward to Sydney. 1987 Queensland Naturalist 28 18 During a visit to Fraser Island, on 27th April 1987, seven batfish (M. argenteus) were caught on a 3.0kg line. 2004 D. Dalton Rough Guide Philippines 312 Most of the Philippines' 450 species of coral can be found here..along with hundreds of species of smaller reef fishes such as angelfish, batfish, surgeonfish and jacks. b. Chiefly New Zealand. A pomfret, Pteraclis velifera (family Bramidae), found from South Africa to New Zealand, having greatly expanded dorsal and anal fins. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Bramidae (pomfrets) > member of (pomfret) sea-bream1710 toothed gilthead1776 breamflat1836 Ray's bream1836 pomfret1890 batfish1927 1927 W. J. Phillipps Bibliogr. N.Z. Fishes 35 Pteraclis velifera... Batfish. 1967 S. Natusch Animals N.Z. 221 Family Pteraclidae is represented by the extraordinary batfish. 1981 N.Z. Jrnl. Zool. 8 25/1 Ray's bream (Brama brama) and the bat fish (Pteraclis velifera) have previously been recorded from New Zealand. 3. Any of various anglerfishes of the family Ogcocephalidae of tropical and temperate seas, which use their large arm-like pectoral and smaller pelvic fins for walking on the sea floor. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Lophiiformes (anglers) > [noun] > member of family Ogcocephalidae (sea-bat) water bat1681 sea-bat1756 nose-fish1828 sea-unicorna1832 batfish1861 1861 T. Gill Catal. Fishes Eastern Coast N. Amer. 47 Malthea vespertilio Cuv. ‘Bat Fish’. 1933 J. N. Gowanloch Fishes & Fishing Louisiana ii. 292 The Batfish..seems much more like a grotesque medieval fancy than an actual fish. 1996 M. Snyderman & C. Wiseman Guide Marine Life: Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida 223/2 Batfishes take advantage of their well-camouflaged bodies while manipulating their lure to gain the attention of a variety of small, curious fishes. 2004 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 26 Jan. 22 The blobfish is considered one of the world's ugliest creatures, along with the naked mole rat, the red-lipped batfish and the warthog. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1848
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