| 单词 | striped surmullet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstriped surmullet The red mullet; a name comprising species of Mullus, esp. M. surmuletus, the striped surmullet, red with three longitudinal yellow stripes, highly prized from ancient times as a food-fish, and M. barbatus, the plain surmullet, of a plain red. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Mullidae > member of (red mullet) mullet1393 rougetc1485 surmulleta1672 red mullet1734 red surmullet1769 bearded gurnard1803 a1672 F. Willughby Ichthyogr. (1686) Tab. S. 7 Mullus major Salv[iani], a Sirmullet. 1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 103 Sur-Mullet, Mullus Antiquorum. 1738 MSS. Dk. Portland (Hist. MSS. Comm.) VI. 175 We had a very good dinner, and a fish which is much prized and valued called a surmullet. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. 227 The Red Surmullet..Mullus barbatus. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. 229 The Striped Surmullet, Mullus major. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 273 Asinius Celer purchased a surmullet at the price of eight thousand sestertii. View more context for this quotation 1899 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 202 I have seen surmullets, when going from the brown sand to the dark rocks, quickly change from one colour to the other. < as lemmas |
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