| 单词 | river porpoise |
| 释义 | > as lemmasriver porpoise river porpoise n. †(a) = river dolphin n. (b) (obsolete); (b) any of several porpoises (family Phocoenidae) occurring in rivers. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Coryphaenidae (dolphin) gilthead1538 dorado1604 dolphin1626 golden-poll1655 goldfish1670 pudding-wife1735 river porpoise1736 river dolphin1781 pudding fish?a1808 mahimahi1905 lampuki1925 1736 R. Brookes tr. J.-B. Du Halde et al. Gen. Hist. China II. 359 The Chinese Workmen give a Gloss to the Tcheou tse or Lutestring with the Fat of the River-Porpus. 1849 E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 97 I saw several river-porpoises, of the kind the natives call the Bolan. 1922 Geogr. Rev. 12 55 River porpoises frolicked around our canoes [sc. in Bolivia]. 2004 M. Simmonds Whales & Dolphins of World i. 21/2 The endangered Yangtze River Porpoise population (actually a subspecies) of the Finless Porpoise is also in trouble. < as lemmas |
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