单词 | klipfish |
释义 | klipfishn. 1. South African. A viviparous, brightly-coloured, marine fish of the family Clinidæ, living in shallow water or rock pools. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Blennioidei > member of family Zoarcidae (klipfish) eel-poutOE green-bone1525 rockfish1731 mutton-fish1736 klipfish1790 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. xx. 256 The Hottentots frequently take Abundance of a Sort of Fish, call'd Rock-fish. These are Fish without Scales.] 1790 E. Helme tr. F. Le Vaillant Trav. Afr. I. ii. 22 The klepvis..is without scales, and taken among the rocks on the sea shore. 1806 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–98 (ed. 2) II. i. 38 The Klip or rock-fish, the Blennius viviparus, makes no bad fry. 1838 J. E. Alexander Exped. Discov. Interior Afr. I. iv. 88 Abundance of excellent fish are to be procured here; such as the delicious Roman fish, Hottentot, ‘Jacob Fever’, mullet, stump nose, and clip fish. 1876 H. Brooks Natal iv. 141 Klipvisch, kingklip fish..are held in very high estimation. 1893 H. A. Bryden Gun & Camera Southern Afr. xx. 449 Many of the fish in Cape waters furnish excellent eating; the Roman, kingklipvisch, stomneus, steenbras, and klipvisch being among the choicest. 1902 Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. 11 224 Several names, or parts of names, are derived from the localities in which the fish are found. Thus we have..Klip Visch, Steen Klip Visch (a peculiar redundancy). 1930 C. L. Biden Sea-angling Fishes of Cape 158 The most common species of klipfish (Clinus superciliosus, one of the few sea fishes giving birth to its young). 1953 U. Krige Dream & Desert 14 They had..gazed into rockpools full of starfish, slowly waving sea plants and green-and-gold klipvissies drifting lazily from crevice to crevice. 1969 Nature 8 Nov. 540/1 The shores of South Africa are enlivened by a group of typically littoral viviparous fishes known locally as klipfishes (but as clinids to the academic). 1973 Farmer's Weekly (S. Afr.) 18 Apr. 102 The klipfish is fried in butter and carefully filleted on the plate with knife and fork. 2. A codfish split open, boned, salted, and dried. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish > dried fish stockfish1290 spalderlingc1340 titling1386 woke fish1386 salpa?1527 spelding1537 lobfish1538 bacalao1555 Poor John1589 buck-horn1602 poorjack1623 Jacka1625 spalding1776 speldring1802 Digby1829 klipfish1835 Bombay duck1850 scale-fish1856 skrae-fish1867 rockfish1876 katsuobushi1891 1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 273/2 The klip-fish is cut along the back, and the back-bone taken out, after which it is salted down in the bottom of the vessel. 1881 S. Walpole in 20th Ann. Rep. Salmon Fisheries 1880 23 in Parl. Papers (C 2901) XXIII. 299 Cod are either cured as stock fisch or as klipp fisch... The klipp fish are split and boned before they are salted. 1925 J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Isles 136 The bulk of the cod caught in the northern fisheries is split open, washed, and salted in pickle and then dried on rocks (Klippen). This is the so-called Klipp-fish. 1961 H. Angerman et al. in Borgstrom & Heighway Atlantic Ocean Fisheries 80/2 The klipfish is subjected to more complicated treatment than the stockfish. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1790 |
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