| 单词 | green-bone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen-bone green-bone n. any of several fishes with greenish bones, spec. †(a) the garfish or garpike, Belone belone (obsolete); (b) the viviparous blenny, Zoarces viviparus; (c) New Zealand the butterfish, Odax pullus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Blennioidei > member of family Zoarcidae (klipfish) eel-poutOE green-bone1525 rockfish1731 mutton-fish1736 klipfish1790 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Belonidae (gar-fish) horn-fishOE hornkeckc1425 garfishc1440 horn-stocka1485 green-bone1525 hornbeak1565 thorn-beak1570 horn-back1598 needlefish1601 spit-fish1601 sea-needle1603 ganefish1611 snacot-fish1611 greenbacka1682 bill-fisha1757 gar1767 sea-pike1769 saury1771 gar-pike1776 sea-snipea1832 mackerel guide1835 long-nose1836 gore-fish1839 gorebill1862 mackerel-scout1880 Long Tom1881 snipe-eel1882 1525 in Exc. e Libris Dom. Jac. V (Bannatyne Club) 7 Grenbans, podlokis,..crunans. 1699 R. Sibbald Provision for Poor iii. 23 The red Gurnard, the Brasse, the Greenbone, the Hirling. 1786 North-country Angler xxiii. 77 And there is an eel called a burrabut or green-bone, that is, a viviparous fish. 1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 291 The Viviparous Blenny (blennius viviparus)..from the colour of the back-bone, has here got the name of greenbone. 1883 E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes New S. Wales 29 Belone ferox, the ‘Long Tom’ of the fishermen, ‘green-bone’, and ‘gar-fish’ of Europeans. c1920 J. H. Beattie Trad. Lifeways Southern Maori (1994) 501 The kelp fish of Canterbury is the Blue-bone of Nelson and may be the Green-bone of Southland. 1957 A. W. Parrott Sea Angler's Fishes N.Z. 130 It is unfortunate that the Butterfish has been given a variety of local names.., as for example, Kelpfish, Kelp-salmon, Greenbone, and several other names. 1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. Green, greenbean the fish, the viviparous blenny, green bone. < as lemmas |
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