单词 | esox |
释义 | esoxn. The name of a large fish mentioned by Pliny (in first quot. apparently identified with the Sturgeon); the Corpus Glossary (a800) renders the name by lax, i.e. salmon. In modern Ichthyology used as the generic name of the Pike. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > [noun] > infraclass Chondrostei > order Acipenseriformes > member of family Acipenseridae (sturgeon) sturgeona1300 sound1323 sturec1485 esox?1527 shirk?1706 isinglass-fish1740 hackleback1914 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Esocidae (pikes) > [noun] > esox lucius (true pike) hakedeOE pike1314 ged1324 water wolfa1398 luce14.. pike fish1494 lucetc1550 wolf1555 lucern1615 river wolf1655 jack fish1659 luscio1680 lupus1706 pickerel1709 esox1774 fresh-water shark1799 pickering1842 northern1950 ?1527 L. Andrewe tr. Noble Lyfe Bestes sig. riiii Ezox is a very grete fisshe in that water danowe be the londe of hungarye, he is of suche bygnes that a carte with iiij horses can nat cary hym awaye..he hath swete fisshe [? flesh] lyke a porke. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Esox, a great Fish in the River Rhine; a Lax. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 313 The Esox or Pike. 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 296 Pliny's esox (a name which modern ichthyology has imposed upon the pike) is evidently a misnomer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1527 |
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