rock-fish, noun
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- South African DutchShow more Translation of South African Dutch klipvisch, see klipvis.
obs.
1. klipfish sense 1. 2. The Hottentot (noun sense 2 b), Pachymetopon blochii.
1731 G. Medley tr. of P. Kolben’s Present State of Cape of G.H. I. 225The Hottentots frequently take Abundance of a Sort of Fish, call’d Rock-Fish. These are Fish without Scales.
[1949 J.L.B. Smith Sea Fishes of Sn Afr. 355Ophthalmolophus helenae...Klipfish. Klipvis. Rocky...Attains 4ins. From East London to the Bashee River, in shallow water under rocks.]
3. With qualifying word: king rock-fish, the kingklip (sense 2), Genypterus capensis.
[1801 J. Barrow Trav. I. 30Another Blennius, called the King Rock-fish, is sometimes caught with the former.]
1843 J.C. Chase Cape of G.H. 169Koning Klip Fish, King Rock Fish. Scarcer than the preceding (sc. klipfish), very considerably larger, and less delicate, but in much repute.
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