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单词 calipeva
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calipevacallipevan.

Forms: 1800s calapavor, 1800s calapiver, 1800s calepeaver, 1800s calipeever, 1800s calipeva, 1800s calipever, 1800s calipiva, 1800s calipiver, 1800s callipeever, 1800s callipeva, 1800s callipever, 1800s callipiver.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese carapeba.
Etymology: Apparently ultimately < Brazilian Portuguese carapeba, carapeva (1587; also acarapeba ), denoting kinds of mojarra (see mojarra n. 2) < Tupi akara'peu̯a caitipa mojarra ( Diaptera rhombeus) < aka'ra kind of freshwater fish (see acara n.) + 'peu̯a flat.With the change between r and l compare Papiamentu carpeeuw, calpeeuw caitipa mojarra ( < Portuguese carapeba). Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: caliˈpeva.
A fish: a mullet of the West Indies, Mugil liza, much esteemed as a delicacy.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Mugiloidei (mullets) > family Mugilidae > genus Mugil > member of (mullet)
mullet1393
mugila1398
mowel?a1500
harder1658
springer1700
kanae1820
calipeva1832
pudding-ball1847
macho1882
1832 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 468/2 Cold calipiver—our Jamaica salmon.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. v. 80 That calipeever, so crisp in the broiling.
1866 Morning Star 17 Mar. Such delicacies as the callipiver and turtle steaks.
1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 170 The Calipeva or Jamaica Salmon.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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