| 单词 |
Kapenaar |
| 释义 |
‖ Kapenaar S. Afr.|ˈkɑːpənɑːr|
Also Kaapenaar.
[Afrikaans kapenaar, f. kaap Cape + -enaar pers. suffix.]
1. An inhabitant of Cape Town or of the Cape Peninsula and its environs.
1834Cape of Good Hope Lit. Gaz. IV. 180 (Pettman), The Capenaars have..attempted to justify the holding of human flesh in bondage by appeals to Scripture. 1902Dowey's Early Annals of Kobstad 99 (Pettman), He was a Kaapenaar. 1946Spotlight (Johannesburg) 13 Dec. 2 b Kapenaars..feel that the Cabinet is really learning something of agricultural economy. 1959Cape Times 9 Mar. 10/5 A statement more pleasing to..all true Kapenaars than that the long battle for the preservation of the building has been won. 1973Ibid. 22 Jan. 5 Is it the mountain which makes Kaapenaars so allergic to change?
2. A large, silver-coloured, marine, food fish, Argyrozona (or Polystegamus) argyrozona, of the family Denticidæ.
1902J. D. F. Gilchrist in Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. XL. 223 At Port Elizabeth it is called not Silver-fish, but Kapenaar. 1913W. W. Thompson Sea Fisheries of Cape Colony 154 Dentex argyrozona... Silver-fish; Kaapenaar (Port Elizabeth). 1947K. H. Barnard Pictorial Guide S. Afr. Fishes 157 Silverfish, Kapenaar (Polystegamus argyrozona)... Table Bay to Natal, down to 70 fathoms. One of the best known, and economically important South African fishes. As well as being sold fresh, it is cured and smoked and sold as ‘haddock’. 1962Pretoria News 5 Jan. 4/2 The Japanese come for what they call red bream or ‘red fish’, which includes the red roman, 74, kaapenaar and silver fish. |
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