smooth plane

A smoothing-plane. smooth-serran us, s. Ichthy.: Serran us cabrilla , common in the Mediterranean, reaching southward to Madeira. The view, sanctioned by Cuvier, that this fish is hermaphrodite, one lobe of the roe consisting of ova and the other of milt, is probably an error, due to some peculiarities in the reproductive apparatus. smooth-shaven, adj. Cut or clipped smooth; made smooth by cutting or mowing. ( Milton: Il Penseroso, 68.) smooth-snake, s. Zool.: Coronella lævis (or a us triac a ), called also the Austrian Snake, common in Southern and Central Europe. It is about two feet long, shiny brown with irregular patches of black, yellow mark on back and sides of head, under surface yellowish with black spots. smooth-sole, s. Ichthy.: Arnoglo us laterna , the Megrim, or Scald-fish, a small species, four or five inches long, common in the Mediterranean, and extending to the north coast of the English Channel.