单词 | black-tail |
释义 | black-tailn. 1. Any of various fishes with black tails. a. The saddled sea bream, Oblada melanura (family Sparidae), of the Mediterranean. historical (now rare).The μελάνουρος or melanurus of ancient writers. As with melanure n., there is sometimes confusion regarding its identity (cf. ruffe n. 1). 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Elyot Dict. Melamirus [sic], a fyshe hauynge a blacke taile.] 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxii. xi. 452 The blacke taile Perch [L. melanurus] [which some take for a Ruffe, others for a sea Breame]. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 232 Black-taile, Melanurus..Was counted a poore fish. 1747 R. James Pharmacopœia Universalis iii. ii. 519/1 Melanurus, Offic. The black Tail. It is a Fish taken in the Mediterranean Sea. 1892 J. Burnet Early Greek Philos. ii. 104 Not to taste black-tails (a kind of fish). 1916 J. W. Swain Hellenic Origins Christian Asceticism i. i. 22 Among the things specially forbidden were..a certain sea-fish, ‘black tail’ (μελάνουρος). b. The ruffe or pope, Gymnocephalus cernuus (family Percidae), a freshwater fish of temperate Eurasia. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > acerina cernua (ruff) ruffec1450 black-tail1601 pope1653 sea-ruff1668 coal-perch1671 stone-perch1888 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxii. xi. 452 The blacke taile Perch [L. melanurus] [which some take for a Ruffe, others for a sea Breame]. 1720 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Melanurus, the Black-tail, a kind of Perch or Ruff, a Fish; it is also taken for a Sea-bream. 1780 T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. Blacktail, the ruff or pope. A small fish. 1912 H. T. Peck Standard Illustr. Bk. of Facts at Ruff A perch-like fish of European waters, the blacktail, striped or stone perch, is also known as a ruff or ruffe. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types perch1381 coracine1625 black-tail1735 grey bass1747 salmon1798 whiting perch1803 brasse1847 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > perca marina black-tail1735 schoolmaster1735 1735 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 316 Perca marina, cauda nigra, the Black-Tail. 1754 M. Catesby & G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Carolina (rev. ed.) II. 7/1 Perca marina cauda nigra. The Black-Tail... The tail was black, and bordered round the edges with a broad list of white. 1893 D. S. Jordan & B. Fesler in Rep. Commissioner 1889–91 (U.S. Comm. Fish & Fisheries) 473 There seems to be no doubt of its identity with the ‘black-tail’ of Catesby, on which is based the Perca melanura of Linnæus. d. South African. A white sea bream (genus Diplodus, family Sparidae); esp. the dassie, D. capensis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > diplodus sargus (dassie) dassie1853 black-tail1902 1902 Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. 11 227 (table) Black-tail (Mossel Bay)... Sargus rondeletii. 1906 East London Daily Disp. (S. Afr.) 6 Mar. 7/5 The biggest I caught on these rocks was a fine dasje (black-tail) weighing 7½ lbs. 1955 C. Horne Fisherman's Eldorado 16 The dassie, when he travels eastwards, becomes the blacktail in both Natal and the Eastern Province. 1997 B. McCrea et al. S. Afr.: Rough Guide 411 Surf fishing for shad, springer, kingfish, bonefish, stumpnose, barracuda and blacktail is another possibility. 2. North American. The black-tailed or mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus, of western North America. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Cervus > unspecified and miscellaneous types of hippelaph1607 maral1838 black-tail1848 shou1850 hangul1858 Molucca deer1876 thamin1888 barasingha1921 1806 W. Clark Jrnl. 13 Apr. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1991) VII. xxxi. 117 Jo: Shields returned about Sunset with two deer which he had killed, those were of the Black tail fallow Deer. 1848 J. W. Abert Rep. Exam. New Mexico 1846–7 23 Of the latter there are two varieties, the common deer, and the black tail. 1887 I. Randall Ranch Life Montana 107 With the certainty of a good day's sport..and a possibility of white and black tail deer. 1895 Outing 27 45/2 We..had two large black-tail bucks and a doe. 1958 Wisconsin Mag. Hist. 42 56/2 The Spencer is also the gun with which Carver hunted black-tail deer in the Platte River valley. 1976 D. Blood Rocky Mountain Wildlife i. ii. 84 The cougar is largely a predator of deer, whether black-tails on Vancouver Island, white-tails in New Brunswick, or mule deer in Idaho. 2004 Canad. Geographic May 62/2 Vast cedar, hemlock and Douglas fir forests that have always provided ideal habitat for coastal blacktail deer and Roosevelt elk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1601 |
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