单词 | green fish |
释义 | green fishn. 1. Fresh, unsalted fish; spec. cod ( Gadus morrhua) before it has been salted or cured. Also: such fish which has recently been salted and is still moist. Cf. green cod n. 1, haberdine n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > fresh fish green fish1425 staple fish1477 green cod1609 1425 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 186 (MED) Item, for grene Fissh, vj d. a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 174 Grene sawce is good with grene fisch. 1540 Old City Acct. Bk. in Archæol. Jrnl. (1886) 43 Italian for a grene ffysshe a goyle of sawmond and for a haberdyne. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Moruë, or Mouluë, poisson, a fishe called Codde, or greene fishe. 1623 R. Whitbourne Disc. New-found-land 79 Two hundred thousand dry fish, ten thousand of large greene fish. 1630 J. Taylor Wks. i. 119/2 If..euery house in this Kingdome did spend but the quantity of two Haberdine or Greenfish in a week. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xviii. 155 Whilst it [sc. the Codling] is new it is called green-fish, when it is salted it is called Ling. 1746 R. Griffiths Ess. Jurisdict. Thames 256 Green Fish, is that lately salted, and which yet remains moist; as green Cod, &c. 1777 G. Cartwright Jrnl. (1792) II. 242 Fourteen quintals of fish were washed, the water-horse was carried out, and the green fish were spread. 1830 Q. Jrnl. Agric. 2 No. 11. 652 The cost of production of a barrel of cured herrings, allowing the fisherman a fair price for the green fish, is about 16s. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Green-fish, cod, hake, haddock, herrings, &c. unsalted. 1911 R. McFarland Hist. New Eng. Fisheries xix. 335 Its provisions looked to the free admission of salted and dry-cured fish and green fish into our markets from Newfoundland. 1963 J. H. Parry Age of Reconnaissance xiii. 210 As the number of ships in the trade increased, its nature had changed from the immediate sale of ‘green’ fish to the marketing, at longer intervals, of much larger quantities of ‘dry’ fish. 1997 Canad. Geographic July 36/2 It [sc. lightly salted dried cod] was far more valuable and commanded a higher price than wet bulk or green fish. 2. a. U.S. Any of several marine fishes found in American waters: (a) the bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix (family Pomatomidae), found in most warm seas; (b) (more fully Alaska greenfish) the masked greenling, Hexagrammos octogrammus, which has green flesh; (c) the opaleye, Girella nigricans. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > miscellaneous type of bluefish1622 parrotfish1656 emperor1666 blue hound-fish1672 green fish1743 reef fish1872 blue1885 flagtail1905 basslet1928 schoolmistress fish1929 1743 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. 14/1 Saltatrix. Skip-jack... When just taken are green on the Back, which in Virginia has given them the Name of Green Fish. 1842 J. E. DeKay Zool. N.Y. IV. 131 The Blue-fish, or, as it is sometimes called, the Horse Mackerel, Green-fish in Virginia, and Skip-jack in Carolina. 1884 Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 27 392 A marked peculiarity of H. ordinatus, which is very common at Unalashka, is its green flesh, from which it has derived the name ‘green-fish’. 1939 Fishes (Nat. Geogr. Soc.) 248 Opaleye or Greenfish... The greenfish depend on its great activity to escape its enemies. 1946 F. Dufresne Alaska's Animals & Fishes 285 The Atka-fish..belongs to the same general family..[as] the strange Alaska greenfish. 1987 J. Hersey Blues (1988) 26 Elsewhere the bluefish is called chopper, greenfish, snap mackerel, horse mackerel, skip mackerel, and skipjack. b. Either of two fishes found in British coastal waters: (a) the cuckoo wrasse, Labrus mixtus (now rare); †(b) the pollack, Pollachius pollachius (obsolete 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 1806 E. Donovan Nat. Hist. Brit. Fishes IV. Pl. LXXIV Our Labrus lineatus is an occasional visitor, as we are credibly informed, to the coast of Cornwall, where it is provincially known by the name of green-fish. 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 297 Gadus pollachius..Names.—Pollack: whiting-pollack..Sometimes termed greenling or green-fish. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 114/1 Milwyn, ?the greenfish, Labrus lineatus, or the milwel, Conger vulgaris. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1425 |
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