| 单词 | blotched picarel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblotched picarel Any of several small marine fishes of the family Centracanthidae (or Maenidae, Emmelichthyidae), found chiefly in the eastern Atlantic; esp. either of two fishes of the genus Spicara (also called Maena), S. smaris and (more fully blotched picarel) S. maena, which also occur in the Mediterranean and have variable coloration with a black patch on the side. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > miscellaneous types > [noun] mudfish1502 sprat1552 frogfish1598 rockfish1605 yellowtaila1622 sleeper1668 picarel1688 hogfish1735 porkfish1735 sucker1753 zebrafish1771 yellowbelly1775 white steenbras1801 stone-toter1817 stargazer1842 warehou1848 baardman1853 goatfish1864 holostome1864 spot snapper1876 suck-fish1876 mademoiselle1882 queenfish1883 cigar-fish1884 emperor fish1884 rock beauty1885 oilfish1896 aholehole1897 berrugate1898 Photoblepharon1902 sweet-lip1934 rabbitfish1941 redbait1960 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xiv. 334/2 Picarell, or the White Cackarell fish. It is in Latine called Garus and Smaris... The Picarel hath the scales more rough or sharp. ?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. IX. 480 The fishermen either dried them in the air or salted and preserved them, whereby they acquired a pungent taste which gained them the name of picarel in several parts of France.] 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXIV. 668/2 It has not the black spot which almost all the Picarels have on their sides. 1905 D. S. Jordan Guide Study of Fishes II. xix. 347 The Mænidæ, or Picarels, are elongate, gracefully formed fishes. 1972 A. Davidson Mediterranean Seafood 107 In Venice you could insult someone by calling him a picarel-eater; and at Port Vendres and some other places in France the fish is known as mata-soldat, or kill-soldier... The picarel can be quite good fried. 2000 Fisheries Res. 48 69 Age, growth and mortality of the blotched picarel, Spicara maena.., were determined from specimens..collected on the eastern central coast of the Adriatic Sea. < as lemmas |
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