| 释义 |
‖ tupsee E. Ind.|ˈtʌpsiː|
Also tupsy, -ey, and more etymologically spelt tăpsī.
[a. Hindī tapsī, more fully tapsī machh:—Skr. tapasya matsya, i.e. fish produced from heat, or in the spring season Phalguna (Feb. and March) when the mango blossoms.]
A fish of the genus Polynemus, allied to the mullet, 8 or 9 inches long, found in the Ganges and Irrawaddy; a variety from the estuaries of the Hooghly is considered a great delicacy at Calcutta. Also called mango-fish.
1839Cantor 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. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Mango-fish,..esteemed as a delicacy in India, where it is also called the Tupsee. Ibid., Tupsee, Tupsey. |