| 单词 | mutton-fish |
| 释义 | ˈmutton-fish
1. A name for various American and West Indian sea-fish, esp. the eel-like Zoarces anguillaris.
1735Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXIX. 112 The Mutton-Fish. This is reckon'd one of the most delicate Fish of the Bahama Islands. 1754Catesby Nat. Hist. Carol. II. 25. 1884 Goode, etc. Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim. 247 The Mutton-fish Zoarces anguillaris..is occasionally eaten by the Cape Ann fishermen, by whom it is known as the Mutton-fish, the name referring to a supposed resemblance of its flesh to mutton.
2. Austral. (The flesh of) a shell-fish of the genus Haliotis, esp. H. iris; = paua.
1840J. S. Polack Manners & Customs of New Zealanders II. xvi. 176 The paua, (mutton-fish) shell. 1843E. Dieffenbach Travels in N.Z. II. x. 239 Haliotis iris... Inhabits New Zealand... The ‘mutton-fish’ of the colonists; eaten boiled, but very tough. 1874A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences xvii. 245 The beautiful iridescent shell of the mutton-fish..is not uncommon in the south. 1882J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries N.S. Wales 92 Then mutton fish were speared. This is the ear shell-fish (Haliotis nævosa), which was eagerly bought by the Chinese merchants. 1898Morris Austral Eng., Mutton-fish, a marine univalve mollusc, Haliotis nævosa, Martyn: so called from its flavour when cooked. 1944Living off Land ii. 30 In the case of molluscs like mutton fish, cook until most of the natural moisture has boiled out of the shell. 1956M. West Gallows on Sand ix. 98 The ecology of Haliotus asinina—mutton-fish to you. 1959W. G. McClymont Explor. N.Z. (ed. 2) 42 They lived on mutton fish.
3. U.S. A kind of medusa.
1884Stand. Nat. Hist. (1888) I. 93 One of the most abundant medusæ at times in the neighborhood of the Florida Keys is a Discophore, called by naturalists Linerges, and known to fishermen there as the ‘thimble-fish’, ‘mutton-fish thimble’, [etc.]. Ibid. Index, Mutton-fish 93. |
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