单词 | bottle-nosed |
释义 | bottle-nosedadj. 1. Having a bulbous or swollen nose, which resembles a round-bottomed bottle.Sometimes with allusion to the physical effects of long-term excessive alcohol consumption. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [adjective] > types of nose > having cammed?c1350 camoised1393 nosed?1440 hook-nosed1519 snat-nosed1519 flat-nosed1530 bottle-nosed1566 chamoy-nosed1598 saddle-nosed1598 swine-snouted1600 camois-nosed1601 round-nosed1611 nosy1620 flat-nose1636 simous1656 sharp-nosed1675 tutty-nosed1681 Roman-nosed1688 snut-nosed1706 snub-nosed1725 camois1745 blunt-nosed1772 pug-nosed1788 snipy1825 button-nosed1830 nip-nosed1831 leptorrhinian1878 leptorrhine1880 snub1883 knob-nosed1886 long-nose1896 Tartar-nosed1897 Ally Sloper1901 beaky-nosed1923 1566 L. Wager Life & Repentaunce Marie Magdalene sig. F.iiv You bottell nosed knaue. 1568 U. Fulwell Like wil to Like sig. A.iii My dame called thee bottle nosed knaue. 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xliii. cxxviii. 128 A Giptian..Blabber-lipt, beetle browd, and bottle nozed. 1631 T. Brewer Life & Death Merry Deuill Edmonton sig. B4 All your great gogle eide, bottle nosd, blobber-lipt..detestable Deuils. 1700 E. Ward Frolick to Horn-fair 11 You Brandy-Fac'd, Bottle-Nose'd, Bawdy, Brimstone-Whore. 1765 St. James's Chron. 1 June A little tun bellyed, bottle-nosed Fellow, stopped me t'other Day as I past. 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 748/1 Bottle-nosed, big-bellied, apoplectical theologians. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. iii. 19 The bottle-nosed regular customer. 1910 J. Farnol Broad Highway (1911) xxxiv. 210 A round-bellied, bottle-nosed fellow in a white hat. 1985 G. Greene Nobody to Blame in Tenth Man 20 He is bottle-nosed and mottled with a little round stomach and a roving eye. 2009 K. Cameron Bohemian Girl (2010) ix. 95 He offered his card to the bottle-nosed man who opened the door. 2. Having a protruding end or snout resembling (the neck of) a bottle; esp. (of a cetacean) having the jaws extended into a distinctive short beak or rostrum. See also Compounds.Recorded earliest in bottle-nosed whale n. at Compounds. ΚΠ 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 153 The other sorts [of whale]..differ not only in Colour, some being pied, others not, but very much in shape, one being call'd a Bottle-Nosed Whale, the other a Shovel-Nose. 1848 Ann. Reg. Sept. 119/2 The appearance and slaughter of whales of the bottle-nosed species has occasionally been recorded in this Chronicle. 1874 C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals N. Amer. 103 The Bottle-nosed Grampus is probably the largest of the Dolphin family of Cetaceans. 1897 Amer. Naturalist 31 307 It must have projected farther forward beyond the upper jaw than does the nose of an ordinary sperm whale, and it would, apparently, have been much broader and blunter, or bottle-nosed. 1919 Z. Grey Tales of Fishing Virgin Seas xiv. 115 We saw schools of blackfish, the huge, clumsy, bottle-nosed species, and a number of whales. 1931 E. G. Boulenger Fishes iv. 56 The Thornback Ray takes nearly six months to develop and the Bottle-nosed Skate more than a year. 1995 Florida Entomologist 78 235 Two types of malformed puparia are typically induced by hot-water immersion... A bottle-nosed puparium will produce an adult about 50% of the time. Compounds bottle-nosed dolphin n. = bottlenose dolphin n. at bottlenose n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1826 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) XVII. 23/2 (table) Polar Regions... Delphinus..nasutus, Bottle-nosed dolphin. 1861 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) I. 547 Two more Bottle-nosed Dolphins, a mother and her young one, were caught upon the sea-coast near Berkely. 1995 C. Hiaasen in C. Hiaasen & D. Stevenson Paradise Screwed (2001) iii. 60 Schools of bottle-nosed dolphins roll and play ahead of your bow. bottle-nosed porpoise n. = bottlenose porpoise n. at bottlenose n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1815 J. H. Tuckey Maritime Geogr. II. 140 Of the lesser cetaceous animals, this sea habitually possesses..the common porpoise, delphinus phocœna, and the bottle-nosed porpoise. 1975 W. Smith Eye of Tiger (1998) 131 Old friends were waiting for me beyond the reef, a school of big bottle-nosed porpoise, who came flashing to meet me, their tall fins cutting the dark surface. 2012 E. Essex Almost Scandal ii. 15 Sally clamped her mouth down to keep from grinning like a bottle-nosed porpoise. bottle-nosed seal n. now rare an elephant seal, esp. the southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina. ΚΠ 1784 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. I. p. cxxi The bottle-nosed Seal..is totally unknown in these seas. 1860 W. S. Dallas in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature (new ed.) III. 471 In..the Sea Elephant, or Bottle-nosed Seal (C. proboscidea), the nose is capable of being protruded into the form of a proboscis. 1936 Autobiogr. Scientist: Mem. Henry Manure iv. 54 The experiments were continued... They next tried kangaroos,..bottle-nosed seals,..and a whole host of other animals. bottle-nosed whale n. = bottlenose whale n. at bottlenose n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Ziphiidae > genus Hyperoodon (bottle-nose) bottle-head1670 bottlenose1697 bottle-nosed whale1709 flounder's-head1717 hyperoödon1843 dœgling1866 1709Bottle-Nosed Whale [see sense 2]. 1824 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Jan. 213 The whale which pursues the herring on the Scottish coasts, is the piked, or bottle-nosed whale. 1870 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Apr. 337/1 In the Hyperoodon or Bottle-nosed Whale, and the Ziphius, all the cervical vertebræ are united into a solid mass. 1967 S. Anderson & J. K. Jones Recent Mammals of World xv. 308 The giant bottle-nosed whale, Berardius bairdii, normally remains down 15 to 20 minutes. 2005 New Yorker 26 Dec. 97/2 It's the bottle-nosed whales that have the teeth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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