单词 | water animal |
释义 | > as lemmaswater animal water animal n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > [noun] > aquatic animal fishc825 aquatic?c1600 water animal1603 aquatile1638 water breather1832 rheophile1939 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 707 You sir, (quoth hee) who are (as one would say) a water-animall [Gk. ἀμϕίαλον..ζῷον], bred and fed within so many seas. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 54 Fishes and other Water-Animals cannot abide without the use of it [sc. Air]. 1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 401 Their Eggs sink directly to the Bottom, and lodge amongst the Mud and Gravel, and may be Food for some minute Water Animal. 1883 Amer. Naturalist 17 724 The Amphibia..pass their first life stage as gilled water animals. 1975 New Yorker 5 May 90/2 The improvement is such that small water animals called marine borers..are beginning to thrive and to bore away at the city's piers. 2005 C. Adams Everglades 12 Estuaries..provide an ideal environment for many kinds of land and water animals. < as lemmas |
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