ˈyellow-fish
a. Name for several fishes with yellow coloration; now esp. a species of rock-trout, Pleurogrammus (Hexagrammus) monopterygius, of the coast of Alaska, olive on the back and yellowish below.
| 1734 Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXVIII. 317 Turdus cauda convexa. The Yellow-Fish. a 1749 Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina, etc. (1754) II. 10 The Yellow Fish. Some of these Fish were a foot in length: this had small thin scales of a reddish yellow colour. 1796 Nemnich Polygl.-Lex. 944 Yellow fish, Labrus fulvus. 1888 Goode Amer. Fishes 272 The ‘Yellow-fish’, ‘Striped Fish’, or ‘Atka Mackerel’, Pleurogrammus monopterygius. |
b. In South Africa, one of several freshwater fishes of the genus Barbus.
| 1834 A. Smith Diary 9 Dec. (1939) I. 168 Fish in the pools of this river of two kinds, the flat head and the bearded yellow fish. 1896 H. A. Bryden Tales S. Afr. i. 18 The pouch contained..a ‘yellow fish’, a barbel-like fish of a pound and a half. 1912 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Animal Life Afr. xix. 334 The yellow fish..is the commonest fish of South Africa. 1952 [see kurper]. 1975 Stand. Encycl. S. Afr. XI. 563/1 The yellow-fishes..are popular angling fishes, ranging from one kg to over 14 kg in weight. |