单词 | cavally |
释义 | cavallyn. A name given by the 17th cent. navigators to various species of tropical fish, known also as horse-mackerel. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Carangidae (scads) > member of yellowtaila1622 cavally1634 horse-mackerela1705 yellow jack1851 carangoid1863 trevally1883 carangid1889 turrum1936 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 213 The rest are Breame, Tench, Trowte..Caualloes. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 12 Fish..of various kindes..Snappers, grey and red; Cavallos, Carpions, &c. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xi. 321 The chiefest Fish are Bonetas, Snooks, Cavally's. 1784 J. Douglas Cook's Voy. Pacific II. iii. x. 186 We..caught..as much fish as we could consume... They consisted principally of cavallies. 1803 T. Winterbottom Sierra Leone i. iv. 69 They have..snappers, mullets, cavallies. 1847 J. C. Ross Voy. Antarctic Reg. II. 117 A kind of mackarel, called yellow tail, and sometimes cavallo. 1887 J. F. T. Keane Three Years Wanderer's Life II. ii 77 I caught so much fish..as ‘old-wives’, young covorly, and skipjacks. 1887 Nat. Hist. Notes in Leisure Ho. No. 15. 131 The Kukukina, or young cavally, when caught on the hook..utters an imperfect guttural sound like ‘Ak, ak’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1634 |
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