| 单词 |
cavally |
| 释义 |
cavally|kəˈvælɪ|
Also 7–9 cavallo, 8 cavalle, cavaly.
[ad. Sp. and Pg. cavalla, It. cavallo mackerel; also applied to the horse-mackerel of various tropical seas. Cf. the specific names Caranx caballus, Cybium caballa given to species of horse-mackerel.]
A name given by the 17th c. navigators to various species of tropical fish, known also as horse-mackerel.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 213 The rest are Breame, Tench, Trowte..Cavalloes. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 12 Fish..of various kinds..Snappers, grey and red; Cavallos, Carpians, etc. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I, The chiefest Fish are Bonetas, Snooks, Cavally's. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) V. 1695 We also caught..a great quantity of fish, principally consisting of cavallies. 1803T. Winterbottom Sierra Leone i. iv. 69 They have..snappers, mullets, cavallies. 1847Sir J. Ross Voy. Antarctic Reg. II. 117 A kind of mackarel, called yellow tail, and sometimes cavallo. 1887Nat. Hist. Notes (fr. Leisure Ho.) No. 15, 131 The Kukukina, or young cavally, when caught on the hook..utters an imperfect guttural sound like ‘Ak, ak’. |
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