| 单词 | rattail fish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrat-tail fish rat-tail fish n. see sense 4. rat-tail fish 4. Any of various fishes with a long, tapering tail, esp. a grenadier (family Macrouridae). Also rat-tail fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > member of family Macruridae (rat-tail) rat-tail1882 macrourid1936 1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 811 M. fabricii Sundevall.—Rat-tail; Grenadier. 1905 D. S. Jordan Guide Study of Fishes I. xii. 209 In the deep-sea allies of the codfishes, the grenadiers or rat-tails (Macrouridæ), the numbers [of vertebrae] range from 65 to 80. 1928 F. S. Russell & C. M. Yonge Seas iv. 91 That curious fish of the cod family known as the Macrurus or rat-tail..spends the greater part of its life in the cold dark depths over the abyssal plain. 1969 A. Wheeler Fishes Brit. Isles & N.-W. Europe 112 Rabbit-fish (Rat-tail, Rat-fish) Chimaera monstrosa. 1975 Sci. Amer. Oct. 86/3 The bait was visited by only a few eelpouts, brotulids and rattail fish (grenadiers). 1993 Guardian 24 June ii. 14/1 The..[baited] transponder..is swiftly gobbled up by Coryphaenoides armatus, aka the grenadier or rattail, then tracked. < as lemmas |
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