| 单词 | lemon dab |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslemon dab Used attributively in lemon dab, lemon sole, names given in various parts of England to certain species of plaice or flounder.In London lemon sole is the fishmonger's name for a kind of plaice somewhat resembling the true sole. In Australia this name has been transferred, through association with lemon n.1, to a flatfish of a pale yellow colour, and in New Zealand it is applied to the turbot. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > plaice, flounder, or sole sole1347 floundera1450 plaicec1450 tongue-fish1655 tonguea1825 lemon dab1835 lemon sole1890 1835 L. Jenyns Man. Brit. Vertebr. Animals 457 Platessa microcephala, Flem. (Lemon Dab.) 1876 Trans. N. Zealand Instit. VIII. 215 Ammotretis rostratus,..a fish not uncommon in the Dunedin market, where it goes by the name of ‘Lemon Sole’. 1880 E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes New S. Wales 26 Plagusia unicolor..is known under the name of the lemon sole; it is of a pale olive-yellow when alive. 1884 St. James's Gaz. 18 Jan. 6/1 The..lemon-dab or queen..belong to that strange family of fish. 1890 Daily News 8 Jan. 2/6 Prices... Soles, 1s to 1s 4d per lb..lemon soles, 6d per lb. < as lemmas |
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