| 单词 | rock-sucker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrock-sucker rock-sucker n. any of various fishes that attach themselves to rocks with a sucker, or that feed by sucking among rocks.Frequently as a gloss of the genus name Petromyzon (sea lampreys). ΚΠ 1844 W. S. W. Ruschenberger Elements Herpetol. & Ichthyol. Gloss. 141/1 Petromyzon, from the Greek petra, rock, and muzô, I suck. Rock-sucker. Systematic name of the lampreys.] 1851 Rep. State Colonial Possessions 314 in Parl. Papers XXXIV. 99 [Trading junks] from various ports of the coast, reaching from Tien-tsin to Hainan Island..[carrying] betel-leaf, dried fish, blubber-fish, rock-suckers, biche-de-mer, [etc.]. 1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man I. xiii. 427 The other group is formed by the well-known Lampreys, or Rock-Suckers (Petromyzonta). 1883 Trans. Ottawa Field-naturalists' Club No. 4. 38 The rock Sucker (a variety [of the common sucker]) has a firm flesh, and is freer from small bones. 1935 Ecol. Monogr. 5 274 (list) Biome Prevalents or Predominants... Influents... With preference for open sandy areas... Liparis fucensis Gir., rock sucker. 1985 A. Wheeler World Encycl. Fishes (ed. 2) 157/2 Chorismochismus dentex Rock-sucker. Gobiesocidae... This is the largest of the whole family of clingfishes. < as lemmas |
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