单词 | tecon |
释义 | † teconn. Obsolete rare. A fish mentioned by Walton as a kind of salmon: see quots. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > young > parr graveling1587 pinka1641 tecon1653 fingering1686 brandling1754 laspring1760 parr1771 wrack-rider1794 salmon pink1805 fingerling1829 farthing-trout1865 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler vi. 141 There is more then one sort of them [salmon], as namely, a Tecon, and another called in some places a Samlet, or by some, a Skegger: but these..may be fish of another kind. View more context for this quotation 1760 Hawkins Note There is another small fish,..called the Gravel Last-Spring, found only in the rivers Wye and Severn... Perhaps this is what Walton calls the Tecon. 1853 ‘Ephemera’ Note All the fish named, except the gravel-last-spring, are salmon-fry of different ages, from three or four months to twelve. Walton's ‘tecon’ may be the parr. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1653 |
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