| 释义 |
‖ leervis S. Afr.|ˈleːrfəs|
Also leervisch.
[Afrikaans, f. leer leather + vis fish.]
= leerfish.
1853L. Pappe Synopsis Edible Fishes Cape Good Hope 24 Lichia Amia, Cuv. & Val. (Leervisch.)..Taken occasionally in Table Bay, but not in great repute, its flesh being deemed dry and rather insipid. 1913W. W. Thompson Sea Fisheries Cape Colony 156 Lichia amia L... Leer-visch; Leather-fish; Garrick (Natal). 1945Cape Argus 27 Jan., Many leervis, kob and yellowtail have fallen for spoons, spinners and wobblers of many kinds. 1951Cape Times 13 Nov. 2/3 Anglers know Swartvlei as a place where the sporting leervis abounds. 1953J. L. B. Smith Sea Fishes S. Afr. (rev. ed.) 222 The Leervis always seizes a fish across the middle and then works it about in the jaws until head-on for easy swallowing. 1956Cape Times 2 Mar. 2/5 He caught a 32-lb. leervis near the lighthouse at Cape Agulhas. 1974Eastern Province Herald 1 Aug. 21 In mid-December..leervis were caught in large numbers off the breakwater. |