| 单词 | sea-porcupine |
| 释义 | > as lemmassea-porcupine sea-porcupine n. = porcupine fish n. at porcupine n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Diodontidae (porcupine-fishes) > diodon hystrix (porcupine-fish) sea-hedgehog1598 porcupine fish1681 sea-porcupine1681 urchin fish1773 porcupine1859 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §v. ii. 107 The Sea-Porcupine, Histrix Piscis. 1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 342 The Sea Porcupine, or a sort of Sculpion. 1744 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 38 The Sea-Porcupine, and a kind of Ray, are known to subsist chiefly upon them [sc. shellfish]. 1792 G. Riley Beauties of Creation (ed. 2) III. 48 The Sea Porcupine of South America, has a mouth like that of a frog, and is about seven inches long. 1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. at Diodontidæ The sea porcupine.., Diodon hystrix, is nearly spherical in shape. 1902 Nebraska State Jrnl. 1 May 7/4 Charles Darwin..is himself the authority for the statement that the sea-porcupine has been known to gnaw his way out of the stomach of the white shark. 1916 Amer. Naturalist 50 636 A specimen of the ‘sea porcupine’, Diodon hystrix Linn., seen swimming near the surface and secured with a dipnet, was found to have two living lepad barnacles attached to one of its erectile spines. 1989 Skin Diver 114 (heading) Sea porcupines are easy prey and super palate pleasers. < as lemmas |
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