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单词 steenbras
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steenbrasn.

Brit. /ˈstiːnbras/, /ˈstɪənbras/, U.S. /ˈstinbræs/, South African English /ˈstɪənbrʌs/, /ˈstɪənbrɑːs/
Forms: Also 1700s steenbras(s)en, 1800s steenbrassem, steembras.
Etymology: < Dutch steenbrasem < steen stone + brasem bream. N.E.D. (1916) gives the pronunciation as (stē·nbras) /ˈsteːnbras/.
South African.
Any of several marine fishes of the family Sparidæ, esp. the red steenbras, Petrus rupestris, the silver steenbras, Sparodon durbanensis, or the white steenbras, Lithognathus lithognathus.
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1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 203 The sea about the Cape is well stocked with a sort of fish the Cape-Europeans call Stone-Brassen; and the Cape-Europeans take great numbers of 'em.]
1791 E. Helme tr. F. Le Vaillant Trav. Afr. (ed. 3) I. 22 There are plenty of fish at the Cape. Among those most valued..are the rooman,..steenbrasen..and some others.
1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. i. 30 Next to the Roman are the red and the white Steenbrassems.
1893 H. A. Bryden Gun & Camera Southern Afr. xx. 449 Many of the fish in Cape waters furnish excellent eating; the Roman, kingklipvisch, stom[p]neus, steenbras, and klipvisch being among the choicest.
1910 Encycl. Brit. V. 230/2 [Cape Colony.] The steenbrass and geelbeck are common in the estuaries and bays.
1914 19th Cent. Sept. 591 [Walfish Bay.] Other fish are harders (grey mullet), steembras, and barbers.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Apr. 301/2 Many of the Cape fish, such as the geelbek,..the steenbras.
1958 Cape Times 20 May 2/2 Fishermen have been bringing in some fine, big red-steenbras... Anglers on the rocks have..had good hauls of smaller fish including white stumpnose, galjoen and white steenbras.
1973 Farmer's Weekly (S. Afr.) 13 June 102 The species being tagged include grunter and white steenbras, elf (shad), kob (kabeljauw or Cape Salmon in Natal) haarders (mullet) and leervis (garrick).
2003 I. Whibley S. Afr. Fisherman (ed. 3) 184/1 Steenbras and the occasional white musselcracker can also be caught from these rocks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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