单词 | cockup fish |
释义 | > as lemmascockup fish More fully cockup fish. Any of several perciform food fishes of southern Asia and Australia; esp. the barramundi Lates calcarifer. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Serranidae (sea-bass) > [noun] > member of genus Lates (Nile perch) latus1598 cockup1718 lates1835 barramundi1873 Nile perch1931 1718 D. Beeckman Voy. to & from Island of Borneo ii. 39 The Rivers and the Sea Coasts afford..a sort of Fish called Cockup, the best tasted foreign Fish I ever met with. 1820 W. Hamilton Geogr., Statist., & Hist. Descr. Hindostan I. ii. 28 The bickty, or cockup, is an excellent fish, as is also the sable fish, which is uncommonly rich. 1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 505 Cockup, crabs, lobsters, shrimps. 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 114 The Lates Nobilis of the erudite, somewhat freely rendered ‘cock-up-fish’ by the Bengalese. 1954 Maryborough (Queensland) Chron. 20 Jan. 7/3 From the coast of Queensland it ranges across North Australia to the west, and through the East Indies to India, where it is known as the Cock-up. 2008 S. J. M. Blaber Trop. Estuarine Fishes iii. 56 One of the exceptions to this is the commercially important Lates calcarifer (Barramundi, cock-up or sea bass) where adults of over a metre in length, as well as juveniles, are present. < as lemmas |
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