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单词 sea-beaver
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sea-beavern.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sea n., beaver n.1
Etymology: < sea n. + beaver n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-beaver.
1. = hippocampus n. 1. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Syngnathidae (pipe-fish) > Hippocampus (sea-horse)
hippocampus1576
seahorse1589
horse-fish1723
sea-beaver1755
1755 A. Berthelson tr. E. Pontoppidan Nat. Hist. Norway ii. 51 The Sea-Beaver is another and larger Insect, peculiar to the sea... Called in the Mediterranean Hippocampus.
2. The sea-otter.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Enhydra (sea-otter)
sea-otter1664
sea-beaver1761
sea-apea1891
1761 D. Dumaresque in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 488 Many of them go thither, to catch sea-beavers.
1764 J. Grieve tr. S. P. Krasheninnikov Hist. Kamtschatka 130 The sea beavers [Lutra marina] have not the least resemblance to the other beavers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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