单词 | greenling |
释义 | greenlingn. 1. ΚΠ Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 210/1 Grene lynge, fyshe [?a1475 Winch. grenlynge; 1499 Pynson grenelynge]. 1493 in G. W. Kitchin Compotus Rolls St. Swithun's, Winchester (1892) 323 Grenelynge. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Greenling, same as Green-fish [= ‘the cod’]. b. The pollack, Pollachius pollachius. Cf. green cod n. 2a, green fish n. 2b(b). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > pollachius or true pollack pollack1427 podley1525 whiting-pollack1673 green fish1806 greenling1880 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 297 Gadus pollachius..Names.—Pollack: whiting-pollack... Sometimes termed greenling or green-fish. 1898 J. Bickerdyke Pract. Lett. Young Sea Fishers xxiv. 244 The pollack (Gadus pollachius), which also bears the local names of whiting pollack, lithe, leeat, laithe, greenling, greenfish, and skeet, is a most handsome fish. 2002 Großwörterbuch des Lebensmittelwesens 534/1 Pollack; callagh; Dover hake, follock GB; green pollack; lob; leet; greenling. 2. North American. Any fish of the family Hexagrammidae, of temperate and subarctic waters of the North Pacific. Cf. green cod n. 2b, green fish n. 2a(b). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > ophiodon elongatus (cultus-cod) green cod1881 cultus-cod1884 greenling1898 ling-cod1955 1898 U.S. National Mus. Bull. ii. 1863 Hexagrammidae... (The Greenlings)... Carnivorous fishes..living in kelp and about rocks in the North Pacific. 1940 Jrnl. Mammalogy 21 120 The Aleuts told us that a greenling, Hexagrammus sp.,..deposits its eggs in the kelp. 1982 R. D. Lawrence Voy. Stella ix. 215 The next day I was outside the den, this time carrying two dead whitespotted greenlings, each about eleven inches long. 2009 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 30 June b1 Lingcod aren't cod at all but the largest member of the greenling family. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1440 |
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