单词 | devilfish |
释义 | devilfish (once / 113648 pages) 1n 2n 3n WORD FAMILY devilfish USAGE EXAMPLESRontu,” I said, for he was watching the black cloud in the water, “you have much to learn about the devilfish.” Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins(1960) Another glass artist, Raven Skyriver, offers "Blue Devilfish," a blown and hot-sculpted glass octopus that seems to float above a metal stand. Seattle Times(Sep 22, 2011) Johnson, who called himself "Devilfish" in his on-line messages, pleaded guilty last October to 10 counts of threatening conduct. Reuters(Apr 19, 2011) 1 n bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles 2Syn|Hyper octopus octopod a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell n medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific 3Syn|Hyper Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale, grey whale baleen whale, whalebone whale whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water n extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned Syn|Hypo|Hyper manta, manta ray Atlantic manta, Manta birostris largest manta (to 22 feet across wings); found worldwide but common in Gulf of Mexico and along southern coasts of United States; primarily oceanic Mobula hypostoma, devil raysmall manta (to 4 feet) that travels in schools ray cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins |
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