ˈsea-adder
[adder2.]
† 1. A sea-serpent. Obs.
| 1601 Holland Pliny vi. xxiii. 132 About these Islands [in the Persian Gulf] they might see sea-adders and serpents so monstrous great, that [etc.]. |
2. The Pipe-fish.
| a 1672 Willughby Hist. Pisc. (1686) 160 Acui Aristotelis congener pisciculus, pueris Cornubiensibus Sea-Adder..dictus. 1752 J. Hill Hist. Anim. 202 Syngnathus... The people of Yorkshire call it the Sea-worm; but it is more generally known in England by its Cornish name of the Sea-adder. 1896 tr. Boas' Text-bk. Zool. 391 The Sea-adder family (Syngnathidæ). |
3. The sea-stickleback, Spinachia vulgaris.
| 1836 Yarrell Brit. Fishes I. 87 The Fifteen-spined Stickle⁓back. Great sea adder, Cornwall. |