rock salmonn.
/ˈrɒk ˌsamən/, U.S. /ˈrɑk ˌsæ(l)mən/ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Blennioidei > anarrhicas lupus (wolf-fish)
sea-wolf1390
wolf's-foot1443
wolf-fish1569
swine-fish1598
sea-cat1601
catfish1620
stone-biter1731
rock salmon1831
swine1844
Murray catfish1873
rock eel1969
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > pollachius virens (coal-fish)
lob-keelingc1325
coalfish1337
lob1357
pollack1427
gull-fish1583
saithe1632
colmey1654
billard1661
rawlin pollack1673
sey-pollack1698
blackmouth1703
billet1769
greenback1772
green cod1776
glossan1780
stenlock179.
harbin1806
coalsey1829
rock salmon1831
rauning pollack1835
green pollack1859
coaly1915
1831 R. Mudie First Lines Zool. iii. 52 Q. What is macrourus? A. It is the rock salmon of the northern nations, a very valuable fish in Greenland and Iceland.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 295 Gadus virens,..locally..rock-salmon, saithe.
1882 Bulletin U.S. Fish Commission 1 42 The ‘Rock Salmon’ of Pensacola.
2. Chiefly British. A fishmongers' name for: (a) either of two dogfishes, the nurse hound, Scyliorhinus stellaris, and the lesser spotted dogfish, S. canicula (cf. huss n.); (b) the wolf fish or catfish, Anarhichas lupus. Cf. rock n.1 7d, rockfish n. 2b.
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > family Scyliorhinidae > member of genus Scyliorhinus (rock-fish)
dogfishc1450
rough hound1602
morgya1667
robin huss1836
rock salmon1928
rockfish1934
rock eel1969
rock1977
the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > family Scyliorhinidae > member of genus Scyliorhinus (rock-fish) > scyliorhinus stellaris
nurse1499
rough hound1602
nurse-fish1682
bouncea1705
nursehound1848
rock salmon1928
dogfish1931
1928 Sci. Monthly July 66/2 The inhabitants of the Hebrides..had no prejudices against the dogfish. To avoid this prejudice, the names ‘gray fish’ and ‘rock salmon’ are used here [sc. in Massachusetts] and in England.
1931 J. R. Norman Hist. Fishes xix. 385 It has been found convenient to market this perfectly wholesome fish [sc. cat-fish] under a more pleasing name, and..it is sold as ‘Rock Salmon’.
1957 R. Campbell Portugal iv. 65 In the [London] fried-fish shops..‘rock salmon’..is the trade name for shark.
1969 A. Wheeler Fishes Brit. Isles & N.-W. Europe 452/2 It [sc. the catfish] is sold with the related species under the names rock salmon and rockfish.
1977 Times 8 Feb. 9/4 Rock salmon has had its name changed..by the trades description act, and is now called Huss.
2006 N.Y. Times Mag. 11 June 92/1 Stocks of dogfish were nearly wiped out not once but twice, though only after the fish became known first as rock salmon and later as Cape shark.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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