单词 | melanure |
释义 | † melanuren. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. The saddled sea bream, Oblada melanura, a small silver Mediterranean fish with a dark band at the base of the tail.The reference to ‘perches’ in quot. 1538 may reflect a confusion between different fishes called ‘ruff’ (see ruffe n.); some confusion must also presumably be responsible for the reference to a fish found in British waters (quot. ?1787). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > miscellaneous types of sheep's head1676 stompneus1705 melanure1828 steentjie1893 zebra1905 sweet-lip1934 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Addicion Melanurus, a kynde of perches, callydde Ruffes. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 232 Black-taile, Melanurus..Was counted a poore fish. ?1787 W. F. Mavor New Dict. Nat. Hist. II Melanurus, a fish commonly caught in the Mediterranean; and sometimes..in the British seas.] 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Melanure, a small fish of the Mediterranean. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Melanure, a sparoid fish, Oblada melanura, found in the Mediterranean. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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