单词 | sea-beaver |
释义 | sea-beavern.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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