单词 | burbot |
释义 | burbotn. A freshwater fish ( Lota vulgaris) of the family Gadidæ, somewhat like an eel, but with a flat head, having two small ‘beards’ on the nose and one on the chin. Also called Eel-pout or Coney-fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > lota lota (burbot) eel-poutOE burbota1475 quab1598 lote1611 coney fish1721 a1475 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 85 The borbottus and the stykyl~bakys. ?1527 L. Andrewe tr. Noble Lyfe Bestes sig. qiii v Borbotha be fisshes very slepery, somwhat lyke an ele hauinge wyde mouthes & great hedes, it is a swete mete. 1605 in Archaeologia (1800) 13 348 These Fishe bee nowe in seasone..Burbott. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. vii. 241 In Staffordshire..it is call'd a Burbot or bird-bolt, perhaps from that sort of Arrow rounded at head, somewhat like this fishes. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 163 Burbot, or Bird bolt. 1772 Forster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 150 The four kinds of Hudson's Bay fish are the Sturgeon, the Burbot, the Gwyniad..the Sucker. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. x. 159 The knights think scorn of anything worse than smelt and burbot. 1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 106 Barbott (or Eelpout). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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