单词 | uranoscope |
释义 | uranoscopen. Zoology. Now rare. A stargazer fish of the family Uranoscopidae; = stargazer n. 2a. Cf. uranoscopus n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Trachinoidei > family Uranoscopidae (star-gazers) > member of > uranoscopus scaber (star-gazer) uranoscopus1571 uranoscope1605 heaven-gazer1611 stargazer1661 sea-priest1672 skygazer1852 sea-parson1898 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 153 Th' Vranno-scope [margin 152 Vrano-Scopus], so hid in mud, doth put Out of his gullet a long limber gut. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Trachinus This is the uranoscope, or Trachinus of authors, called also callionymus. Artedi. 1853 S. Lee Anecd. Habits & Instincts Birds, Reptiles & Fishes 398 The next increase of ugliness is to be found in the Batrachus, with a head similar to that of the Uranoscope. 1907 T. Gill in Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 48 408 The eggs of a Uranoscope, Raffaele considered, are among the most interesting and characteristic of floating eggs and among the very best for microtomic sections. 1952 R. M. Grant Miracle Nat. Law Graeco-Roman & Early Christian Thought i. 13 The true observer of the heavens is the fish ‘ouranoscope’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1605 |
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