单词 | sea-swallow |
释义 | sea-swallown. 1. = flying fish n. [After Latin hirundo (Pliny).] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Exocoetidae (flying fish) flying fish?c1510 rearmouse1598 sea-swallow1598 sea-kite1601 swallow-fish1601 sea-bat1611 swallow1668 sea-hawka1717 wing-fish1855 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > member of Dactylopteridae (flying gurnards) flying fish?c1510 sea-swallow1598 sea-kite1601 swallow-fish1601 sea-bat1611 swallow1668 sea-hawka1717 batfish1848 wing-fish1855 flying gurnard1882 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A sea swallow, or a sea reare-mouse. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. xxvi. 249 The sea Swallow flieth: and it resembleth in all points the bird so called. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Arondelle de mer, the flying fish called the sea Bat, or sea Swallow. 1664 R. Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 19 A great flying-fish or Sea Swallow. 1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling ii. liii. 171 The Flying-Fish or Sea-Swallow..is very common between the Tropicks. 1844 Linsley Fishes Connecticut in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 47 59 Dactylopterus volitans, Cuv., Sea Swallow, Long Island Sound. 2. (a) A name for any one of the terns (from their general resemblance to swallows). (b) The stormy petrel, Procellaria pelagica. (c) An edible swiftlet of the genus Collocalia, found in south-east Asia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Hydrobatidae > procellaria pelagica (stormy petrel) devil's bird1634 sea-swallow1647 storm-finch1661 assilag1698 storm-bird1752 devil bird1759 Mother Carey's chicken1767 storm finch1768 witch1770 alamootiea1777 stormy petrel1776 water witch1794 spency1813 storm-petrel1833 stilt stormy petrel1884 Tom Tailor1885 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Sterna (tern) stern1609 sternet1638 sea-swallow1647 tern1678 rittock1774 mackerel gull1792 gull-teaser1802 kip1802 rippock1806 kingbird1831 pirr1875 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Apodidae > member of genus Collocalia > collocalia inexpectata sea-swallow1647 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. (Birds) A Sea-Swallow, een zee-swaluwe. 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 90 Hirundo Marina, the Sea-Swallow. 1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ 269 Larus Piscator Aldrov... The lesser Sea-Swallow. 1734 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds II. Pl. 88 The greater Sea Swallow. 1831 M. Russell Hist. Egypt (1832) xi. §3. 484 The Sterna Nilotica, or Egyptian sea-swallow. 1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds V. 460 Thalassidroma pelagica. The Common Storm-Petrel... Sea Swallow. 1887 H. Caine Deemster I. vii. 155 The sea swallow shot over him too, with its low mournful cry. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 310/2 Animals of economic value [in Borneo] are the sea-swallows, whose edible nests are prized as the best in the archipelago. 3. The trepang or bêche-de-mer. [= Dutch zeezwaluw; but the second element represents the Malay name swālā.] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > order Actinopoda > member of genus Holothuria sea-slug1779 swallo1779 trepang1783 sea-swallow1802 bêche-de-mer1814 cotton-fish1851 cotton-spinner1908 1802 Naval Chron. 8 380 Sea swallow (called beach de mar by the Portuguese, and trepong by the Malays). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1598 |
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