单词 | tapsi |
释义 | tapsin. East India. A fish of the genus Polynemus, allied to the mullet, 8 or 9 inches long, found in the Ganges and Irrawaddy. Also called mango fish (mango fish n. at mango n.1 and adj. Compounds 2).A variety from the estuaries of the Hooghly river is considered a great delicacy in Calcutta (Kolkata). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Polynemoidei (thread fins) > polynemus paradiseus (mango-fish) mango fish1751 roeball1799 mangrove1828 tapsi1839 mango1879 1839 Cantor in Proc. Zool. Soc. July 116 The species best known is the Polynemus risua, Hamilton; Pol. longifilis, Cuvier; the Tupsee or Mango Fish of the Anglo-Indians. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Mango-fish,..esteemed as a delicacy in India, where it is also called the Tupsee. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tupsee, Tupsey. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2022). < n.1839 |
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