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单词 roundfish
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roundfishn.

Brit. /ˈraʊndfɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈraʊn(d)ˌfɪʃ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: round adj., fish n.1
Etymology: < round adj. + fish n.1 With sense 1 compare Middle Low German runtvisch cod bound up in pairs (in such a way that two fish form a circle) and dried.
1. A fish of a rounded or cylindrical cross-section. Contrasted with flatfish n.
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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.
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a. North American. The round whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum.
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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.
b. The common carp, Cyprinus carpio. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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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).
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