xiphias

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Du genre Xiphias.

Singulier et pluriel
xiphias \ɡzi.fjas\

xiphias \ɡzi.fjas\ masculin

Du latin xiphias.

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xiphias \Prononciation ?\	xiphias \Prononciation ?\

xiphias \Prononciation ?\

(Ichtyologie) Espadon.
- Huge Ziffius, whom Mariners eschew / No lesse, then rockes, as travellers informe. — (Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii, 1590)
- S. Malpighi having dissected the Head of a Xiphias or Sword Fish, which hath a very big Eye, observ’d that the middle of the Optick Nerve is nothing else, but a large Membrane, folded according to its length in many Doubles almost like a Fan, and invested by the Dura Mater. — (Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol 3, p. 38, 1700)
- Trebius Niger informs us that [...] the xiphias, or, in other words, the sword-fish, has a sharp-pointed muzzle, with which it is able to pierce the sides of a ship and send it to the bottom. — (Bostock & Riley, trad. Pliny, Natural History, 32.vi, 1857)
- In the xiphias, you observe, the enormous elongation of the head is produced by the elongation of the jaws proper – that is to say, of the pre-maxilla and nasal bones. — (Prof. Huxley, "Structure and development of the vertebrate skeleton", The Lancet, 23 mai 1863)