单词 | maasbanker |
释义 | maasbankern. South African. The horse mackerel or scad, Trachurus trachurus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Carangidae (scads) > member of Trachurus or Caranx (horse mackerel) scad1602 yellowtaila1622 mother of anchovies1668 hardtail1704 horse-mackerela1705 lizard fish1753 jurel1772 scad mackerel1803 maasbanker1831 caranx1836 saurel1882 runner1888 mackerel scad1890 1727 J. G. Scheuchzer tr. E. Kæmpfer Hist. Japan I. i. xi. 136 Adsi is the Maasbancker of the Dutch.] 1831 S. Afr. Almanac & Directory June Fish in Season—Ray, Maasbanker, Jacob Evert etc. 1843 J. C. Chase Cape Good Hope ii. 169 Maasbank..June..Like Mackarel, but stronger, not always wholesome. 1853 L. Pappe Synopsis Edible Fishes Cape Good Hope 25 Caranx Trachurus Lacep. (Maasbanker; Bastard Mackerel.)..Caught in winter at both ends of the Colony. Its flesh is well flavoured and wholesome. 1902 Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. 11 215 The Maasbanker..is identical with the Maasbanker (Caranx trachurus) of Holland, and indeed is to be found almost everywhere within the temperate and tropical zones of both hemispheres. 1930 C. L. Biden Sea-angling Fishes of Cape vii. 146 The English horse-mackerel is the masbanker of the Cape (Trachurus trachurus). 1947 Cape Times 2 May 9 Maasbankers continue to be plentiful. 1959 G. Jenkins Twist of Sand ii. 43 We'd had a fair haul of pilchard, stockfish and maasbanker. 1970 Cape Times 28 Oct. (S. Afr. Fishing Review) 2/2 The purse seine boats..hunt the shoals of pilchard, mackerel, maasbanker and anchovy along the West Coast. 1972 L. G. Green When Journey's Over (1973) xii. 148 Nelson saw snoek and marsbankers in boxes and barrels or hanging up to dry. 1985 A. Wheeler World Encycl. Fishes 355/1 Off S. African coasts, however, large numbers are captured and marketed fresh, canned, or smoked, and the maasbanker is a valuable commercial species. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1831 |
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