单词 | roundfish |
释义 | roundfishn. 1. A fish of a rounded or cylindrical cross-section. Contrasted with flatfish n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [noun] > rounded roundfish1587 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. iii. 224/2 (margin) in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Round fish. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 30 Of round fish, Brit, Sprat, Barne, [etc.]. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 124 Upon the coast of Bretaigne, where it is muddy, store of round fish, as Lamprey, Conger, Haddocke. 1750 R. Heath Nat. & Hist. Acct. Scilly 317 The Coast is plentifully stored..with Sea Round Fish; as..Cunner, Rockling, Cod, Wroth, Becket. 1895 Daily News 25 Nov. 5/3 The immature fishes caught by line are almost entirely round fishes, such as haddock and cod. 1989 Mariner's Mirror 75 82 The great lines..did not take a large number of flat fish such as sole but sought principally ‘round fish’ particularly large cod. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xv. 267/1 The tetragonurid squaretails are round fishes encircled by ridged scales. 2. a. North American. The round whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Coregonus (whitefish) > member of whiting1587 gwyniad1612 powan1633 whitefish1698 tittimeg1705 omul1706 pollack1707 pollan1714 skelly1740 vendace1769 tullibee1789 ferra1807 roundfish1821 herring-salmon1836 shad-salmon1842 mountain herring1877 bluefin1878 grayling1879 shad-waiter1879 houting1880 kilch1881 Menominee1882 gizzard-fish1883 1821 J. Richardson in C. S. Houston Arctic Ordeal (1984) 38 A species of Salmo that is new to us... Our voyageurs have named it the Round fish. 1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 298 C. quadrilateralis,..Pilot-fish;..Shad Waiter, Round-fish. 1922 F. E. Pond Fishcraft 91 Local names of the various species of whitefish include..Rocky Mountain Whitefish, Roundfish, Shad Waiter. 2004 K. Schultz Field Guide Freshwater Fish 248 Whitefish, Round... Other names menominee, round fish, frost fish. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Roundfish, the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1587 |
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