water-animal

STRANGER: And animal hunting may be truly said to have two divisions, land-animal hunting, which has many kinds and names, and water-animal hunting, or the hunting after animals who swim?

The Sophist 2006

The reason is that a crocodile is in a way a land-animal and a water-animal combined.

On the Parts of Animals 2002

In its character of land-animal it has a space for a tongue; but in its character of water-animal it is without the tongue itself.

On the Parts of Animals 2002

In our present group of stories, however, the rôles are reversed: the monkey is clever; the water-animal (crocodile), cruel and stupid.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

LEVI'ATHAN, _s. _ a water-animal mentioned in the Book of Job

The Illustrated London Reading Book Various

If there is the species 'water-animal', there will be the genus 'animal', but granted the being of the genus 'animal', it does not follow necessarily that there will be the species 'water-animal'.

Categoriae. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

This entire figure represents a water-animal god, one only of a number of semi-human mystic monsters.

Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Carl Lumholtz 1886

"Your husband wants a crab, which is a water-animal to be sure, but is not a fish, and which has eyes, but not in its head."

The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878

The description here given of the leviathan, a very large, strong, formidable fish, or water-animal, is designed yet further to convince

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

‘animal’, it does not follow necessarily that there will be the species ‘water-animal’.

Categories 2002