| 单词 | ox-eye herring |
| 释义 | > as lemmasox-eye herring 3. Any of various edible marine fishes. Now spec. (more fully ox-eye herring, ox-eye tarpon): an Indo-Pacific game fish, Megalops cyprinoides (family Megalopidae).The identity of the Brazilian fish in quot. a1642 is uncertain. It seems unlikely to be the bogue ( Boops boops: see quot. 18951), which, although its Latin name means ‘ox-eye’, is found in the Mediterranean and north-east Atlantic; it could perhaps be an amberjack (genus Seriola), now called olho-de-boi (‘ox-eye’) in Portuguese. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Boops boce1589 ox-eyea1642 cockerel1676 bogue1862 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Elopiformes > member of family Megalopidae ox-eyea1642 tarpon1699 megalops1834 savanilla1884 sabalo1889 silver king1889 megalopine1890 1867 A. G. Randall tr. Extract Hist. Old or Lower Calif. in J. R. Browne & A. S. Taylor Sketch Settlement & Explor. Lower Calif. (1869) 169 In the gulf of California the ojon has been caught. This singular flat-fish..has in the middle of the highest part of the back an eye the size as that of an ox. This fish should, with more propriety, be called boeps (ox-eye), than that which Linnæus designates by this name in the genus sparus.] a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) vi. 534/1 [Upon the coast of Brazil:] The Ox-Eye, is like the Tunney, an excellent Fish; and looks like the Eye of an Ox. 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Ox-eye.., a sparoid fish, the bogue. 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Ox-eye.., (Austral.) an elopoid fish (Megalops cyprinoides) resembling the tarpon. 1965 Austral. Encycl. IV. 84A (caption) Ox-eye herring, Megalops cyprinoides. 1985 A. Wheeler World Encycl. Fishes 245/2 The ox-eye tarpon is the Indo-Pacific relative of the Atlantic tarpon. 1988 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 28 Aug. 38/3 In recent weeks anglers have encountered one of the most spectacular sport fish available—the ox-eye herring or tarpon. < as lemmas |
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