frost fishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From frost +‎ fish. In the case of the tomcod, so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about when frost comes.

名詞

frostfish (plural frostfishes or frostfish)

1. A tomcod (either species of Microgadus).
   1. Microgadus proximus

      Synonym: Pacific tomcod

   2. Microgadus tomcod

      Synonym: Atlantic tomcod

2. Any of genus Benthodesmus cutlassfish
3. (obsolete, US, dialect) A smelt.
4. (New Zealand) A scabbardfish.
   • 1886, Robert Caldwell Reid, Rambles on the Golden Coast of New Zealand, Chapter 20:

     Another species of the renowned “frost fish,” but unlike the ordinary frost fish, it is of much greater length in proportion to depth. It well deserves its proper cognomen of the scabbard fish, its silver skin adding to the resemblance.

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参照

• “frostfish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.