xiphias

Definition

Synonym of swordfish.

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Xiphias or Latin xiphiās (“swordfish”).

Example Sentences

• "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 […]"