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单词 sea-dragon
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sea-dragonn.

Etymology: dragon n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-ˌdragon.
1. Various fishes, as the weever; the bullhead; a dragonet (Callionymus); a flying seahorse, Pegasus draco; also a kind of pipefish (see quot. 1898).
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Trachinoidei > member of family Trachinidae (weever)
sea-dragon1551
weever1622
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Callionymoidei (dragonets) > member of genus Callionymus (dragonet)
sea-dragon1551
quaviver1589
sculpin1672
sea spider1672
dracunculus1752
dragonet1769
dragon fish1769
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Cottidae (sculpins) > member of genus Cottus (bull-head)
sea-dragon1551
gull-head1611
sculpin1672
bullhead1674
mud catfish1818
sea-toad1884
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Syngnathidae (pipe-fish) > member of Phyllopteryx (sea-dragon)
sea-dragon1551
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > [noun] > order Pegasiformes or genus Pegasus > member of (sea-moth)
sea-dragona1836
flying or winged seahorse1854
sea-moth1905
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. A vv Wormwood..is good against..the bytinge of a shrewe, and the sea dragon.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxii. v. 434 Since I haue named the sea-dragon [L. draco marinus], this would be noted, That himselfe outwardly applied, is a remedie [etc.].
1674 T. P. et al. Eng. & French Cook 412 Potage of Vives or Sea-dragons.
1674 T. P. et al. Eng. & French Cook 412 Take out your Sea-Dragons, and put them with Ragoust [etc.].
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 272 The Cottus with the second back fin white. The Sea-dragon.
a1836 J. F. South in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXIII. 165/1 Pegasus Draco, Lin.; Sea Dragon.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Sea-Dragon, any Australian fish of any one of the three species of the genus Phyllopteryx, family Syngnathidæ.
2. A mythical marine monster resembling a dragon.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > aquatic monster or serpent
nickerOE
cetec1220
dragona1340
serra1449
hurlpool1553
afanc1573
orcc1590
sea monster1600
Hydrus1667
sea-dragon1749
kraken1755
sea-snake1755
Midgard1770
the (great) sea-serpent1774
sea-worm1799
taniwha1840
makara1873
Mamlambo1919
lau1923
Ogopogo1926
1749 Gentleman's Mag. 19 506 It [a creature resembling a winged alligator, said to have been lately captured in a mackerel-net] is said..to have been described by naturalists under the name of the Sea-Dragon.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Sept. 2/1 When a junk is fully laden and on the eve of sailing, the crew commend themselves to the sea-dragon in a frightfully noisy religious service.
3. Misused to render French draconcule, guinea-worm.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > genus Filaria > member of > filaria medinensis (Guinea worm)
Guinea worm1699
leg worm1699
dracunculus1706
hairworm1752
sea-dragon1775
skin worm1831
rishta1834
1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 211 Those..enemies to man, the tape, the hair worm, and the sea dragon.
4. A popular name for any large marine saurian.
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the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [noun] > Sauria > saurian or dinosaur > marine
sea-lizard1859
sea-dragon1896
1896 Guide Fossil Reptiles & Fishes Brit. Mus. 52 Most of the ‘Sea-Dragons’..were obtained from the Lias of Street,..Lyme Regis [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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