“purple-fish”的英文意思

单词

purple-fish

释义

ˈpurple-fish Now rare.
[f. purple n. + fish n.¹]
A mollusc that yields a purple dye; = purple n. 3.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Bozina, a trumpet,..a purple fish, Buccina, purpura, murex.1601Chester Love's Mart. lxxxii, The Purple-fish, whose liquor vsually, A violet colour on the cloth doth die.1686W. Cole Purpura Ang. (1689) 1 The Purple-Fish, which I found..on the Sea Coasts of Somerset-shire, and the shores of South-Wales opposite to it.1820W. Tooke tr. Lucian I. 454 note, The murex, a species of shellfish, called also the purple-fish.

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