| 单词 | boxfish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboxfish boxfish n. any of the tropical marine fishes of the family Ostraciidae, which have bony scales that fuse to form a box-like case around the body; also called cowfish, trunkfish. [Perhaps after Malay ikan peti < ikan fish + peti box. It is unclear which Malay word is reflected by toetomba in quot. 1798.] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Ostraciontidae (trunk-fish) > member of genus Ostracion ostracion1658 boxfish1798 trunk-fish1804 cow-fish1870 coffer-fish1884 1798 T. Pennant View of Hindoostan I. 213 The Ikon Toetomba, or box-fish of the Malayans. 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 969/1 The..box-fishes..have their entire body..enclosed in a dense case of armour. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xvii. 438 Armour is well illustrated by the box-fishes and globe-fishes. 2010 Guardian 25 Jan. 18/5 Among their findings were the inch-long file clam, the whitespotted boxfish, sacoglossan sea slug and the frankly terrifying post-larval octopus. < as lemmas |
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