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单词 panfish
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panfishn.

Brit. /ˈpanfɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈpænˌfɪʃ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pan n.1, fish n.1
Etymology: < pan n.1 + fish n.1In sense 2 with reference to the shape of the horseshoe crab's shell. Compare saucepan crab n. at saucepan n. Compounds.
North American.
1. A fish suitable for cooking whole in a frying pan, esp. one caught by an angler rather than bought.
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1796 A. Simmons Amer. Cooking 7 Perch and Roach, are noble pan fish.
1838 J. F. Cooper Home as Found II. v. 71 The Egyptians use them as a pan-fish.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 36 In season the White Perch is the pan-fish, excelled by none.
1948 Life 6 Sept. 55/2 (caption) Fishing in the teeming lakes provides bass, pike, perch for many tables. The Yahara River..which connects Mendota and Monona is full of pan fish.
1994 Toronto Star 31 July f1/1 Most panfish will bite on worms, slugs, leeches, minnows, grasshoppers, crayfish or just about anything organic.
2. The horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus. Cf. saucepan crab n. at saucepan n. Compounds. Obsolete. rare.
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1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 645 One living species (Limulus cyclops) is a native of the East Indies, and goes by the popular name of Pan-fish, or Saucepan-crab, because the shell, when the limbs and body have been removed and the tail spine permitted to retain its place, has some resemblance to the useful culinary article.
1890 Cent. Dict. Pan-fish,..a saucepan-fish or casserole-fish; the king-crab, Limulus polyphemus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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