单词 | count-fish |
释义 | > as lemmascount-fish count-fish n. Australian a full-grown schnapper (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Pagrus or Chrysophrys (schnapper) tai1620 snapper1697 stone-bass1698 schnapper1821 paugy1848 scup1848 scuppaug1870 count-fish1874 tarwhine1880 1874 in J. E. Tenison-Woods Fishes New S. Wales (1882) 41 The ordinary schnapper, or count-fish, implies that all of a certain size are to count as twelve to the dozen, the shoal or school-fish, eighteen or twenty-four to the dozen. 1874 in J. E. Tenison-Woods Fishes New S. Wales (1882) 41 The usual method of estimating quantity for sale by the fisherman is, as the schnapper or count-fish, the school-fish, and squire. < as lemmas |
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