单词 | pargo |
释义 | pargon. Any of various edible, deep-bodied fishes of the sea bream family Sparidae. Also: any of various snappers of the family Lutjanidae. Cf. porgy n.Chiefly and now only in Hispanic or Portuguese contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of (sea-bream) baleenc1185 sea-bream1530 old wife1585 pargo1589 ruffle1601 sargon1601 sargus1605 sea-liver1611 ruffe1647 silver-fish1703 porgy1725 brassem1731 red gilt-head1776 sparoid1842 panga1902 1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 113 We..found there certaine Caruels fishing for Pargoes. 1616 J. Smith Descr. New Eng. 12 40 or 50 Saile yearely to Cape-blank, to hooke for Porgos, Mullet, and [to] make Puttardo. 1679 T. Trapham Disc. Health Jamaica 65 The choice Mullet brings up the next division crowded with various Snappers, Rock fish,..Porgoes, old Wives, Tarpums, Spanish Mackeril, Barrocoota. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xv. 40/1 Fish hookes for Porgos, Bonettos or dorados. 1760 Naval Chron. 1 57 On the 15th they departed from Teneriff, and the 25t came to Cape Blanco, on the Coast of Africa, a good Place of fishing for Pargoes, Mullet, and Dog-fish. 1777 J. Cook Voy. S. Pole II. iii. iv. 40 These must have been the same sort of fish mentioned by Quiros, under the name of Pargos, which poisoned the crews of his ships. 1860 M. Reid Odd People 73 A still more delicate fish is the ‘pargo’. It is of a white colour tinged with rose. 1902 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Amer. Food & Game Fishes 405 The Snappers, or Pargos, genus Lutjanus..species very numerous, Asiatic, American, or African. 1959 Angling Times 27 Feb. 6/3 I went to the fish market..at Funchal... Strange fish are on the slabs—pargo. 1991 Fly Rod & Reel Apr. 15/1 He regularly fishes the southern California beaches down into Ensenada, Mexico, taking corbina, pargo, calico bass, croaker and barred perch. 2004 Miami Herald (Nexis) 5 Feb. e9 Other specialties include whole fried pargo (snapper) with pataconesplus salad. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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