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pelamyd, -mid|ˈpɛləmɪd|
Also 6 palmita; 7– (in L. form) pelamis, -mys, pl. pelamides; 8–9 palamede.
[ad. L. pēlamys, -myd-, pēlamis, a. Gr. πηλαµύς, -µυδα. The form palamede represents F. palamide ‘a young Tunnie’ (Cotgr.); palmita = It. palamite ‘a fish called a tunnie before it be a yeere old, a sommer whiting’ (Florio).]
1. A small Mediterranean fish; a young tunny.
1598Epulario G j b, To dresse a Palmita, which is a kind of Tonny. 1601Holland Pliny I. 243 The old Tunies and the young, called Pelamides, enter into great flotes and skuls into the sea Pontus. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 259. 1781 Gibbon Decl. & F. xvii. (1788) III. 13 note, Among a variety of different species, the Pelamides, a sort of Thunnies, were the most celebrated. 1810Anne Plumptre Resid. France II. vi. 76 The palamede..seems so much of the same nature, that some persons have supposed it only the young thunny. 1854Badham Halieut. 188 After passing the anniversary of their first birthday, these pelamyds attained maturity, and were dubbed thunnies in consequence. 1857Birch Anc. Pottery (1858) II. 289 A pelamys or tunny.
2. Applied to the genus Pelamys (Cuvier 1831) of scombroid fishes.
1863Couch Brit. Fishes II. 102 Pelamid. |