| 单词 | swine-fish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasswine-fish swine-fish n. [originally after Italian pesce porco (1576 or earlier)] any of several marine fishes or mammals thought to resemble a pig; spec. (a) the common or harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena (cf. hogfish n., sea-swine n.) (now rare); (b) Scottish (Orkney) the wolf fish, Anarrhichas lupus (apparently so called from the movements of its mouth or nostrils); cf. sense 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Blennioidei > anarrhicas lupus (wolf-fish) sea-wolf1390 wolf's-foot1443 wolf-fish1569 swine-fish1598 sea-cat1601 catfish1620 stone-biter1731 rock salmon1831 swine1844 Murray catfish1873 rock eel1969 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Pesce porco, a hogge or swine fish. 1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 294 The Wolf-Fish, (anarhichas lupus, Lin. Syst.), here the swine-fish, an ugly animal, is often found in our seas. 1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 351 The Chequered Swine-fish is one of the singular species which are so frequent in the hotter seas. 1910 Brit. Sea Anglers' Soc. Q. Mar. 15 In Orkney, the fishermen term it swine-fish, from the muscular motion of its nostrils which they say resembles the working of the nose of a pig. 1996 M. Flaws & G. Lamb Orkney Dict. Swinefish, the wolf fish. < as lemmas |
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