| 释义 |
‖ esox|ˈiːsɒks|
Also 6 ezox.
[L. esox, a Gaulish word: cf. Welsh ëog, Ir. iach salmon.]
The name of a large fish mentioned by Pliny (in first quot. app. identified with the Sturgeon); the Corpus Glossary (a 800) renders the name by lax, i.e. salmon. In mod. Ichthyology used as the generic name of the Pike.
c1520L. Andrewe Noble Lyfe in Babees Bk. 234 Ezox is a very grete fisshe in that water danowe be the londe of hungarye, he is of suche bygnes that a carte with iiij horses can nat cary hym awaye..he hath swete fisshe [? flesh] lyke a porke. 1706Phillips, Esox, a great Fish in the River Rhine; a Lax. 1774Goldm. Nat. Hist. (1862) II. iii. i. 303 The Esox or Pike. 1854Badham Halieut. 296 Pliny's esox (a name which modern ichthyology has imposed upon the pike) is evidently a misnomer. |