| 单词 | milkfish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilkfish milkfish n. (a) Australian (now rare) = bêche-de-mer n.; (b) a large, fork-tailed, silver marine fish, Chanos chanos, cultured for food in South-East Asia and the Philippines. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Myctophiforms > [noun] > order Gonorhynchiformes > member of Anotophysi (milk-fish) milkfish1880 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > other edible fish dogdrave1227 lamprey1297 lingc1300 loach1357 tench1390 carpc1440 rougetc1485 anchovy1582 pompano1598 tai1620 alewife1633 tug-whitingc1650 weakfish1686 ten-pounder1699 fire-flaira1705 tusk1707 porgy1725 katsuo1727 rockfish1731 tautog1750 sea bass1765 Albany beef1779 sable1810 Murray cod1843 paradise fish1858 spot1864 strawberry bass1867 nannygai1871 maomao1873 spotfish1875 strawberry perch1877 milkfish1880 tarwhine1880 tile-fish1881 latchett1882 tile1893 anago1895 flake1906 branzino1915 rascasse1921 lampuki1925 red fish1951 1880 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 5 128 Another species [of Trepang] is the ‘milk fish’, or ‘cotton fish’, so called from its power of emitting a white viscid fluid.., which clings to any object like shreds of cotton. 1905 D. S. Jordan Guide Study of Fishes II. iii. 45 The single living species is the Awa, or milkfish, Chanos chanos, largely used as food in Hawaii. 1962 K. F. Lagler et al. Ichthyol. vi. 203 The irregular movements of the Asiatic milkfish (Chanos) into and out of fresh water make it amphidromous. 1974 National Geographic Dec. 788/2 Across southern Asia, from the Philippines to India, commercial aquaculturists have begun to raise milkfish, a food species that subsists on plant life. 1991 R. S. K. Barnes & K. H. Mann Fund. Aquatic Ecol. (ed. 2) i. 26/1 In the tropics..,there is an old tradition of labour-intensive cultivation of shrimp and milkfish. < as lemmas |
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