Xiphias

Definitions

1. Synonym of Dorado (“constellation of the southern sky”).
2. Synonym of swordfish.

Equivalents

Examples

“Huge Ziffius, whom Mariners eschew / No lesse, then rockes, as travellers informe […]”

“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.”

“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 […]”

“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.”

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