| 单词 |
trunk-fish |
| 释义 |
ˈtrunk-fish Any fish of the genus Ostracion or family Ostraciontidæ, inhabiting tropical seas, and having the body of angular cross-section and covered with bony hexagonal plates; a coffer-fish.
1804Shaw Gen. Zool. V. 420 Triquetral Trunk-fish. 1835Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) XII. 229/2 The horned trunk-fish, Ostracion cornutus, a native, like most of the genus, of the Indian and American seas. 1851Gosse Nat. Hist., Fishes 288 The Trunk-fishes..have the body angular, four or three-sided, covered with angular plates of solid bone soldered together, and forming a sort of inflexible box, with openings for the mouth, the fins, the tail, and the gill-aperture. 1876Goode Fishes Bermudas 23 The locomotion of the trunk⁓fishes is very peculiar. |

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