单词 | rays bream |
释义 | Ray's breamn. A dark brown pomfret, Brama brama (family Bramidae), originally found in the North Atlantic but now known to occur in all oceans apart from the North Pacific. Also called Atlantic pomfret. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Bramidae (pomfrets) > member of (pomfret) sea-bream1710 toothed gilthead1776 breamflat1836 Ray's bream1836 pomfret1890 batfish1927 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 117 Ray's Bream..appears to have been less perfectly known to the older writers than might have been expected. 1873 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 2 92 Another kind of fluke..has been frequently observed in open follicles in the branchial cavity of Ray's bream (Brama Raii). 1925 J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Isles 74 Ray's Bream is a fish of characteristic appearance, with a body elevated and compressed, and a very long dorsal fin. 1959 A. C. Hardy Open Sea II. x. 208 This species [sc. the old wife, Spondyliosoma cantharus] should not be confused with Ray's bream Brama raii which has also been called the black sea-bream. 2002 A. Davidson Mediterranean Seafood (ed. 3) ii. 108 Ray's bream also occurs on both North American coasts, where it is known as the pomfret. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1836 |
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