| 单词 | hottentot fish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHottentot fish Hottentot fish n. (see sense A. 3). Hottentot fish 3. Also Hottentot fish. Any of several brownish or bronze-coloured sea breams of the genus Pachymetopon (family Sparidae), popular in South Africa as food and game fishes, esp. P. blochii. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Girellidae Hottentot fish1731 sweep1840 luderick1898 nigger1927 black perch1966 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 196 The Cape Europeans call 'em Hottentot Fish. That Name was given 'em by the first Dutch settlers there, on Account of the said Settlers buying some of them of the Hottentots. 1798 S. H. Wilcocke tr. J. S. Stavorinus Voy. E.-Indies I. 560 The Hottentot-fish, which is like a sea-bream. 1838 J. E. Alexander Exped. Discov. Interior Afr. I. 88 The delicious Roman fish, Hottentot. 1880 Cape Monthly Mag. Mar. 162 As fast as I could haul them in, came up bouncing fat Hottentot fish, varied now and then by a grand white stumpnose. 1921 Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 21 721 The Hottentot is one of the commonest Cape fishes. 1949 J. L. B. Smith Sea Fishes S. Afr. 276 The Hottentot slipped away with the next wave. 2002 National Geographic Aug. 10/2 Among the gray hottentot fish, scarlet romans, and other reef denizens gliding between the kelp stipes were shysharks. < as lemmas |
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