sea adder
English
Alternative forms
- sea-adder
Etymology
From sea + adder. Compare Old English mere-næddra (“sea-adder, lamprey”).
Noun
sea adder (plural sea adders)
- The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Spinachia spinachia, syn. Gasterosteus spinachia).
- The tanglefish, or greater pipefish (Syngnathus acus).
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sea adder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)