| 单词 | margate grunt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmargate grunt 1. Originally North American and Caribbean. More fully margate-fish, margate grunt. A deep-bodied grunt, Haemulon album, found in the western Atlantic and important as a food fish. Cf. Margaret n. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Pomadysidae (grunts) > member of genus Haemulon grunta1705 red-mouth1704 porgy1725 margate1735 Margareta1757 redthroat1840 flannel-mouth1882 redgullet1890 1735 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 315 Perca marina Gibbosa cinerea. The Margate-Fish This is esteem'd very good Meat. 1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida App. 19 Margate-fish, rock-fish, [etc.]. 1888 L. D. Powles Land of Pink Pearl ix. 263 ‘Margate’, or ‘market fish’..more commonly pronounced as though spelt with a ‘g’... I have been told it is a corruption of ‘Margaret’. 1902 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Amer. Food & Game Fishes 422 The name margate-fish appears to have been derived from Margate, a well-known seaport..in England, from which some of the ‘conchs’..originally came. In the Bahamas and at Key West the name is now variously corrupted into margat, market, margaret, and margarite. 1903 J. A. Henshall Bass, Pike, Perch & Others 328 The Margate-fish (Hæmulon album). The margate-fish, or margate grunt, is the largest of the family. 1918 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 542/1 We landed fifteen or twenty fish—margate, porgy, and mutton-fish. 1946 F. R. La Monte N. Amer. Game Fishes 64 Margate Fish..Margate, Margate Grunt, Margot-fish... The fish may turn greenish if disturbed. 1985 A. Wheeler World Encycl. Fishes 204/1 Haemulon album, margate. < as lemmas |
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