‖ ellops Obs. in actual use.
(ˈɛlɒps)
[a. Gr. ἔλλοψ or ἔλοψ, the name of a fish and of a serpent.
(The variants Elaps and Elops are used in mod. zoological Latin in different senses).]
1. A kind of serpent.
| 1667 Milton P.L. x. 526 Cerastes hornd, Hydrus, and Ellops drear. |
2. A kind of fish mentioned by ancient writers.
| 1601 Holland Pliny I. 266 The Lamprey in Sicilie: the Elops at Rhodes, and so forth of other sorts of fishes. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) II. i. iii. 299 The Elops or Sea-serpent. 1775 Ash, Ellops, a fish affording delicious food which some think to be the sturgeon of the moderns. 1875 Browning Aristoph. Apol. 110 Spends all his substance on stewed ellops-fish. |