“echeneis”的英文意思

单词

echeneis

释义

† echeˈneis Obs. rare.
Also echineis.
[Gr. ἐχενηίς, f. ἔχ-ειν to hold + ναῦς (dat. νηί) ship, from its supposed power of holding back a ship.]
The Remora, or Sucking-fish, which has on the crown of its head an oblong flat disk, or sucker, by means of which it can adhere to foreign bodies.
1594? Greene Selimus Wks. (1881–3) XIV. 209 The Echinæis swimmes against the streames.1651J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. 29 The litle fish Echeneis stops the Ships.1774Goldsmith Nat. Hist. (1862) II. iii. i. 300 The Echineis, or Sucking-fish.

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