| 单词 | prickly-back |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprickly-back prickly-back n. (a) English regional (northern) = prickleback n. 1 (now rare); †(b) U.S. the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, when it has shed its shell and is waiting for the new one to harden (obsolete rare).Sense (b) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Gasterosteidae > species aculeatus (three-spined stickleback) banstickle1483 prickleback1747 three-spined stickleback1769 prickly-back1862 pricky-back1864 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood at Jack-sharps Tom Barsey's. Prickly-Backs. Small fresh-water fishes, called by these several names. 1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 174 Tom Cods,..Prickly Backs... Dog Fish. Bill Fish. 1890 Cent. Dict. Pricklyback, the edible crab, Callinectes hastatus, when the new shell is only partially hardened; a shedder. 1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. 171 Prickly-backs, stickle-backs; found in brick-ponds, etc., and the delight of very youthful anglers. < as lemmas |
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