单词 | bottlenose |
释义 | bottlenosen. 1. Usually as two words or with hyphen. A bulbous or swollen nose, resembling 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 > [noun] > types of nose snoutc1330 hawk-nose1534 bottlenose1553 saddle nose?c1599 snut-nose1603 tooter1638 bridgea1658 hook-nose1687 button1696 snub nose1724 pug nose1769 Roman1821 Grecian nose1830 snub1830 potato-nose1853 squash nose1882 number six nose1923 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique f. 78v A man with a bottell nose, blobbe cheaked. 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures xiv. 71 Great gang teeth, staring eyes, and a foule bottle nose. a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 94 Captain Ragg..famous..for his great bottle nose. 1699 Def. of Scots Settlement at Darien 48 Both Sexes have a round Visage, short Bottle Noses, large and grey Eyes. 1720 W. P. Jamaica Lady 21 She was of a dead Wainscot Complexion, large, pobble Wall-Eyes, Bottle-Nose. 1760 T. Smollett Roderick Random (ed. 5) I. Prol. viii Tho' thou art, perhaps, distinguished by a bottle nose, twenty of thy neighbours may be in the same predicament. 1811 Ld. Byron Hints from Horace 58 Black eyes, black ringlets, but—a bottle nose! 1899 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Jan. 98 You can't fail to recognize Smith. He has light hair and a bottle nose. 1910 F. R. Bechdolt Hard Rock Man x. 89 The face was marked by a bottle-nose. 1956 L. H. Sullivan Autobiogr. Idea i. 11 Full, clean-shaven face, thick lips, small gray eyes, beetling brows and bottle-nose. 2002 J. M. Gray Fiend in Human (2004) xvii. 123 Out of the publican's sight (a florid man with a bottle-nose from sampling the product), customers recline on old barrels. 2. British regional (Scottish in later use). The puffin, Fratercula arctica. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > fratercula arctica (puffin) scout1596 willock1606 bottlenose1620 parrot1664 sea-parrot1664 guldenhead1676 coulterneb1678 mullet1678 puffin1678 cockandy1684 sea-coulter1684 bowger1698 norie1701 tammie norie1701 popea1705 lunda1744 rock-bird1765 puffin-auk1768 tommy noddy1769 Tomnoddy1771 Tommya1777 Tomnorry1793 Tommy1828 sea-owl1842 1620 J. Mason Briefe Disc. New-found-land sig. Aivv The sea fowles, are Gulles,..Penguins, Sea Pigeons, Ice Birds, Bottle noses. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 325 The Bird called in South-Wales Gulden head, Bottle-nose and Helegug. 1828 J. Jennings Ornithologia 213 The..Bottle-nose, Pope, Marrot, or Sea-Parrot, of which there are two varieties, is, in length, about twelve inches. 1966 D. Sutherland Against Wind ii. ix. 139 Pope, coulterneb or bottle-nose, the puffin by any other name is surely one of the most extraordinary of our British birds. 1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. Bottle nose, a nickname for the puffin. 3. Any of various cetaceans having the jaws extended into a distinctive short beak or rostrum; a bottle-nosed whale or dolphin. (See Compounds and cf. bottle-nosed adj. 2.) 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 1697 T. Smith in Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 606 We saw..several Bottle-noses, fish of about three yards long. 1775 in Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) (1779) 68 397 Some bottle noses, and vast flocks of flying fish. 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 278 The great bottle-nose or hyperoodon. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies vii, in Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 324/1 They were all right whales,..and finners, and razor-backs, and bottle-noses. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xv. 400 Cephalopods..are themselves much sought after by toothed whales like the sperm-whale and the bottle-nose. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 14 Sept. d2/1 The calf was a wholphin, a hybrid..having 66 teeth compared with the bottlenose's 44. Compounds bottlenose dolphin n. any of several kinds of dolphin with a distinctive beak, esp. one of the genus Tursiops (family Delphinidae), which includes the widespread T. truncatus. ΚΠ 1866 J. E. Gray Catal. Seals & Whales Brit. Mus. (ed. 2) 258 Tursio truncatus. Bottlenose Dolphin. 1989 Nature Conservancy Mar. 38/2 The trip begins with a one-day cruise of the Topolabampa Bay to search for blue-footed boobies and other seabirds and Pacific bottlenose dolphins. 2006 J. Mann in V. Sommer & P. L. Vasey Homosexual Behaviour in Animals iv. 127 Homosexual interactions in bottlenose dolphins are expected to be much more common amongst males. bottlenose porpoise n. = bottlenose dolphin n. ΚΠ 1807 E. Home in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 97 The bottle-nose porpoise and large bottle-nose whale. 1928 Q. Rev. Biol. 3 69/2 These Pliocene porpoises had not more than 66 teeth, while the living bottlenose porpoise, Tursiops, has a hundred or more. 2012 B. Hellwarth Sealab xi. 147 Tuffy, an Atlantic bottlenose porpoise, was part of a cadre of marine mammals the Navy rounded up to see how they might be useful in underwater work. ΚΠ 1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds II. 531 Bottle-nose Seal. 1849 S. G. Goodrich Illustrative Anecd. Animal Kingd. 164 The bottlenose seal is in general very inactive, but, when irritated, is exceedingly revengeful. bottlenose whale n. (originally) any of various cetaceans with a distinctive beak or rostrum, including the bottlenose dolphins and the minke whale; (now usually) spec. any of several medium-sized toothed whales of the family Ziphiidae (beaked whales), esp. Hyperoodon ampullatus of the North Atlantic and H. planifrons of the Southern Ocean.In quot. 1787: a dolphin. ΚΠ 1787 J. Hunter in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 373 Of the Delphinus Delphis, or Bottle-nose Whale. 1807 E. Home in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 97 The bottle-nose porpoise and large bottle-nose whale. 1896 Geogr. Jrnl. 7 626 Several finners, a bottlenose whale, several seals, and penguins were seen. 1999 Nature Canada Autumn 23/2 Once hunted by men with harpoons, the northern bottlenose whales of Nova Scotia's Sable Gully are now being stalked by scientists. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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