单词 | hogfish |
释义 | hogfishn. 1. a. The African manatee, Trichechus senegalensis. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Placentalia > [noun] > order Sirenia > genus Trichechus (manatee) > types of hogfish1597 1597 A. Hartwell tr. D. Lopes Rep. Kingdome of Congo i. iii. 28 In this Riuer [sc. the Congo] there [is]..another kind of creature, that hath (as it were) two hands, and a taile like a Target, which is called Ambize Angulo, that is to say a Hogge-fish [It. Ambize Angulo, cio è pesce porco], because it is as fat as a Porke. 1600 J. Pory Gen. Descr. Afr. 39 in tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. Here likewise breedeth another strange creature, called in the Congonian language Ambize Angulo, that is to say, a hogge-fish. 2000 C. Rose Giants, Monsters & Dragons 15/1 The Ambize is also known as the Angulo or the Hog Fish. It was first mentioned by European sailors and travelers during the sixteenth century. Its curious description mentions the head of a pig or ox on the body of an enormous fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Phocaenidae (porpoise) swineeOE mereswineeOE pellock1331 sea-swine1398 porpoisea1425 brownswinec1440 bassinatc1540 pollantine1558 sea-hog1580 hogfish1611 tursion1655 tumbler1694 sea-pig1826 snuffer1829 puffing pig1845 puff-pig1861 puffer1884 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Pesce porco, the Molebout-fish, or Swine-fish, the Sea-swine, the Porpuis, Hog-fish or Sea-hog. 1686 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 32 These Porpoises, or Hog-fish, are very swift in their motion. 1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. III. ii. 24 The Porpus, or Porpesse, is a fish frequently seen in the North seas, and particularly about England. It is so called from Porcus-piscis, or the Hog-fish, from the great quantity of fat that covers the whole body. 1855 R. C. Trench Eng. Past & Present ii. 53 Even at this late period of the language awkward foreign words will be recast throughout into a more English mould;..‘pork-pisce’ (Spenser), that is ‘sea-hog’, or ‘hog-fish’, will be ‘porpesse’, and then ‘porpoise’, as it is now. 2. a. The large-scaled scorpionfish, Scorpaena scrofa, of the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Scorpaenidae (scorpion-fishes) > member of genus Scorpaena (hog-fish) hogfish1608 sea-hog1608 sculpin1672 Jacob Evertsen1727 rascasse1921 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 137 The Crocodiles doe also feare to meddle with the Sea-hogge or Hog-fish, because of his bristles all about his head. 1800 tr. B. de Saint Pierre Voy. Isle of France x. 86 The hog-fish is small and oddly shaped; its head is like a pike, upon its back are seven points nearly as long as its body, the prick of them is venomous. 1863 Baird Stud. Nat. Hist. 494 Scorpaena scrofa, the hog-fish, a native of the European seas..is said to be very good eating. 2008 Tissue & Cell 40 8/1 Scorpaena scrofa L. (Class Actinopterigii, Family Scorpaenidae) is also known as hog-fish, red scorpionfish or large-scaled scorpionfish. b. Either of two wrasses (family Labridae) found off the coasts of the western Atlantic and the Caribbean: the large and edible Lachnolaimus maximus, which has an arched back and 14 dorsal spines, and (more fully Spanish hogfish) the smaller Bodianus rufus, a brightly-coloured reef-dwelling fish. Also: any of various other small wrasses of the genus Bodianus, found in warmer waters worldwide; usually with distinguishing word. Cf. pigfish n. 1(c). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > miscellaneous types > [noun] mudfish1502 sprat1552 frogfish1598 rockfish1605 yellowtaila1622 sleeper1668 picarel1688 hogfish1735 porkfish1735 sucker1753 zebrafish1771 yellowbelly1775 white steenbras1801 stone-toter1817 stargazer1842 warehou1848 baardman1853 goatfish1864 holostome1864 spot snapper1876 suck-fish1876 mademoiselle1882 queenfish1883 cigar-fish1884 emperor fish1884 rock beauty1885 oilfish1896 aholehole1897 berrugate1898 Photoblepharon1902 sweet-lip1934 rabbitfish1941 redbait1960 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Labrioidei (wrasse) > [noun] > family Labridae > genus Labrus > member of breama1475 thrush-fish1601 ballana1705 yellowfish1734 comber1769 sea-swine1803 cuckoo-fish1884 hogfish1898 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Labrioidei (wrasse) > [noun] > family Labridae > miscellaneous types sea-wife1836 hogfish2002 1735 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 317 Turdus flavus, the Hog-Fish... Suillus, the great Hog-Fish. 1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida App. 52 We may with safety eat of all fish caught on the Florida shore, unless it should be of the hog-fish taken on the very outer reef. 1898 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1897 118 Lachnolaimus maximus (Walbaum). Hog Fish... Harpe rufa (Linnæus). Spanish Hog Fish. 1942 National Geographic Mag. June Picture insert 746–55 (caption) The grinning fisherman has speared a Spanish hogfish while swimming under water. 2002 Biol. Conservation 106 39/1 Five species [of reef fish]: yellowtail damselfish,..hogfish (Lacholaimus maximus), Spanish hogfish (Bodianus rufus), barracuda.., and bar jack. c. U.S. Any of various darters (genera Etheostoma and Percina) found in North American rivers; esp. the logperch, P. caprodes (also called hogmolly). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > genus Percina > percina caprodes (log-perch) rockfish1605 hogfish1820 log-perch1882 1820 C. S. Rafinesque Ichthyologia Ohiensis 38 Etheostoma caprodes..called almost every where Hog-fish. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 21 Closely allied to the Pike-Perches is the log-perch, P. caprodes, also known as the ‘Rock-fish’, and ‘Hog-fish’. 1908 J. W. Fox Trail of Lonesome Pine 45 A hog-fish flew for shelter under a rock. 1983 G. C. Becker Fishes Wisconsin 907 Logperch—Percina caprodes... Other common names: zebra fish,..hogfish. d. U.S. Any of various American grunts (family Haemulidae); esp. the pigfish, Orthopristis chrysoptera. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Labrioidei (wrasse) > [noun] > family Labridae > cossyphus gouldii (blue groper) > fish allied to pigfish1807 hogfish1871 red groper1893 1871 Amer. Naturalist 4 694 Hog-fish, Sailor's Choice (Hæmulon fulvomaculatum Mitchell). Shaped like the last; a good pan fish. 1899 B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-speech 188 Hog-fish, a fish found to perfection in the waters of Chesapeake Bay. 1946 F. LaMonte N. Amer. Game Fishes 66 Pigfish—Orthopristis chrysopterus... Names: Piggie..Hogfish. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1597 |
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