“parrot、fish”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

parrot-fish

释义

ˈparrot-fish
A name given to several fishes on account of their brilliant colouring, or as having a strong hard mouth resembling the bill of a parrot; spec. a. A fish of the family Scaridæ found in tropical seas and having a very strong jaw. b. A fish of the Australian labroid genus Labrichthys, esp. L. psittacula. c. One of the gymnodonts.
1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 28 We also took here that they call the Parrot-Fish.1735Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXIX. 113 Psittacus Piscis, viridis, Bahamensis: The Parrot-Fish; so called from the Shape of the Head, and its beautiful Variety of Colours, green, blue, red, and yellow.1756P. Browne Jamaica 446 The Parrot-fish. This fish has the most beautiful lustres of any I have ever seen... The jaws thick and strong resembling the beak of a parrot.1885C. F. Holder Marv. Anim. Life 1 The gorgeous parrot-fishes are the sun-birds of the sea.1902Sir W. Kennedy in Daily Chron. 13 Oct. 3/1 A very curious specimen, known in the tropic seas as the parrot-fish, from its formidable beak, like a macaw's.

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