欧米人は魚の名前を日本人ほどは知らないと聞いています。となるとHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stoneに出てきた次の魚は子供でも知っている魚なのでしょうか？ He was looking over at Harry as he spoke. Crabbbe and Goyle chuckled. Harry, who was mesuring out powdered spine of lionfish, ignored them.
辞書では分からないかも知れませんが一応見ています。
・Collins Dictionary: any of various scorpion fishes of the tropical Pacific genus Pterois, having a striped body and elongated spiny fins
この辞書には珍しくこの魚の図も掲載されていました。(lionfish)
勿論Wikipediaにも魚の図が出ています。
・Wikipedia: Pterois is a genus of venomous marine fish, commonly known as lionfish, native to the Indo-Pacific. Pterois, also called zebrafish, firefish, turkeyfish or butterfly-cod, is characterized by conspicuous warning coloration with red, white, creamy, or black bands, showy pectoral fins, and venomous spiky fin rays.
辞書では分からないかも知れませんが一応見ています。
・Collins Dictionary: any of various scorpion fishes of the tropical Pacific genus Pterois, having a striped body and elongated spiny fins
この辞書には珍しくこの魚の図も掲載されていました。(lionfish)
勿論Wikipediaにも魚の図が出ています。
・Wikipedia: Pterois is a genus of venomous marine fish, commonly known as lionfish, native to the Indo-Pacific. Pterois, also called zebrafish, firefish, turkeyfish or butterfly-cod, is characterized by conspicuous warning coloration with red, white, creamy, or black bands, showy pectoral fins, and venomous spiky fin rays.
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