单词 | pelamid |
释义 | pelamidn. Frequently historical. A young or small bonito or tunny; spec. the Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Scombridae > genus Thunnus (tuna) > thunnus thynnus (tunny) > young pelamid1598 summer whiting1598 1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario G j b To dresse a Palmita, which is a kind of Tonny. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 243 The old Tunies and the young, called Pelamides, enter into great flotes and skuls into the sea Pontus. 1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss v. iii The Pelamis (which some call Sommer Whiting). 1744 Trav. Late Charles Thompson II. 58 Strabo and Pliny were very much mistaken, to tell us that the Pelamides, or young Tunnies, were so afraid of the white Rocks conceal'd under Water near this Shore, that [etc.]. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1788) III. xvii. 13 (note) Among a variety of different species, the Pelamides, a sort of Thunnies, were the most celebrated. 1810 A. Plumptre Resid. France II. vi. 76 The palamede..seems so much of the same nature, that some persons have supposed it only the young thunny. 1883 G. L. Faber Fisheries of Adriatic 141 At Spalato the Pelamid and the Lichia (Lizza) are very abundant. 1936 J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 66 The Pelamid..is distinguished from the other Tunny-like fish met with in British waters by the peculiar banded appearance of the upper surface of the body. 1992 Irish Naturalists' Jrnl. 24 72 (heading) Bonito or pelamid Sarda sarda Bloch in Irish waters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1598 |
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