sephenn.
/ˈsɛfɛn/ A kind of sting-ray. Also attributive.
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > member of family Dasyatidae (sting-ray)
sting ray1624
sea-devil1634
fiery-flaw1684
fire-flaw1684
whip-ray1699
fire-flaira1705
devil fish1737
trygon1749
stingaree1838
sephen1854
sting-tail1872
fiery-flare1889
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 460 The Red Sea swarms with divers kinds of huge sharks and skate... The sephin is one of its own children.
1879 P. L. Simmonds Comm. Products Sea 262 Galuchat or Sephen skin, from the back of the Hypolophus Sephen and Trygon Sephen Cloq.
1879 P. L. Simmonds Comm. Products Sea 262 The best galuchat, or what we should call shagreen, is made from the skin of the sephen, which abounds in the Mediterranean Sea.
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