10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRAIGFLUKE»
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A History of the Fishes of the British Islands: 3
POLE. CRAIGFLUKE. Pleuronechw cynoglossus, LINK-EUS. Pleu-ronecfe pole,
LACBI'EDE. Platessa pola, CUvinк. PAaNnLL; Memoirs of Wernerian Society, vol.
vii. “ “ Ушки; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 315. Pleuronectes cynogloseus, Gпптueк; Cat.
2
The Chambers Dictionary
... and knowledge esp through compact with the devil pr a minor evil spirit; a hag,
crone; a dangerously qr irresistibly fascinating woman (colloq); a wizard (now
rare); a flatfish, the craigfluke; a curve whose equation is x2y = 4a2(2a-y) (math).
... smear-dab, lemon sole of fishmongers, tasteless and wanting in firmness,
occasionally passed off as the sole by unscrupulous cooks ; PI. cynoglossus L.,
craigfluke ; PI. limanda L., dab ; PI. flesus L., flounder : Rhombosolea. Soha Cuv.,
eyes ...
Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley, 1905
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Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for ...
Craigfluke. Taken at Brixham, Plymouth, &c. LLEVIS, Pennant. Brit. Zool. t. 47, p.
309; Yarn, 221; Couch, iii. t. 171, p. 187. Smear Dab, or Lemon Sole. This is a
very excellent fish, not so common as the “dab.” GENUS, BKOHBU S, C'Iwier.
Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1875
5
The fisheries exhibition literature
Young specimens are not met with near the shores, and the adult fish are taken
in deep water at all times of the year; so that it is probable the craigfluke is more
of a permanent deep-water resident than the rest of the Pleuronectida'.
London. International fisheries exhibition, 1883, 1884
6
The herring fisheries, by H.J. Green
rough and stony. Young specimens are not met with near the shores, and the
adult fish are taken in deep water at all times of the year; so that it is probable the
craigfluke is more of a permanent deep-water resident than the rest of the ...
7
Oyster culture, by C.V. Anson and E.H. Willett
... vi., 154, 155 Whitby, social condition of fishermen at this port, iv., 173 ; fisheries
carried on there, viii., 334 ; vessels employed, viii., 334 ; payment of crews, viii.,
334; its inaccessibility at low water, ix., 5 Whitch, another name for the craigfluke,
...
8
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
... confirmed most of the? observations, and has found shoa'ils of plaice, cod,
haddocks, do, i 6 Water over which was charg with myriads of their floating s. only
by the trawl——viz., the craigfluke (Pleuronectes cynoglossus), commonly known
.
9
Wild Life on Norfolk Estuary: With a Prefatory Note by Her ...
... giving its legitimate name as pole or craigfluke {Pleuronectes cynoglossus),
although the long, rough dab {Hippoglossoides limandoides) and the [locally]
rarer sail fluke {Rhombus megastoma), all on my list of Norfolk fishes, are by the
fisher ...
Arthur Henry Patterson, 1907
10
Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for ...
The best-flavoured are caught off Brixham. Those caught in the Exe, and other
large estuaries where it is muddy, the flesh partakes of the nature of the ground.
cynoglossus, Linn. Couch, Fishes of the British Islands, iii. p. 190, t. 173.
Craigfluke.