单词 | penny fish |
释义 | > as lemmaspenny fish penny fish n. †(a) the John Dory, Zeus faber, having a single large, round, black spot on each side of the body (obsolete); (b) a small freshwater perciform fish, Denariusa bandata (family Chandidae), of northern Australia and New Guinea. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > [noun] > order Zeiformes (dories) > genus Zeus > zeus faber (John Dory) doryc1440 St. Peter's fish1611 penny fisha1682 Peter-fisha1682 John Dory1729 a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) iii. 99 The Fish called..by some, a Peter or Penny Fish: which having two remarkable round spots upon either side, these are considered to be the marks of S. Peter's Fingers. 1993 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 62 739 (table) Fish per net-night... Penny fish Denariusa bandata. < as lemmas |
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