scomber

scomber englanniksi

1. Scomber

1. (alt form)

2. A fish of the genus (taxfmt).

3. (quote-journal)|month=March|year=1853|pages=260–262|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_frasers-magazine_1853-03_47_279/page/260/mode/1up|passage=(..) the familiar name by which all scombers are known at Montpelier being the ''peis d''’''avril'', or April fish. (..) All times and tongues have agreed to call the first of these scombers by some name allusive to the warlike weapon carried in his mouth—viz., a sword, several feet in length, finely attenuated in front, and, to the dismay of the denizens of the deep, of a temper like that of its owner, not to be trusted or trifled with. (..) The size and strength of these fish are as remarkable as their pugnacity; the power, as in most scombers, residing in the muscles moving the tail.

4. (quote-book)|volume=II|location=London|publisher=Bentley (publisher)|Richard Bentley and Son,(nb...)|year=1871|pages=230–231|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.02150/22272.93%2520A%252013/page/230/mode/1up|passage=(..) large ''carongues'' and ''scombers'' are found in the Canarian seas, and the similarity of several species is most remarkable.

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6. (quote-book) The whole construction of these large scombers is designed to make of them, like fast ships, the greyhounds of the sea. (..) The case of the tunny and the large scombers, whose massive bodies become considerably warmer when they are swimming, is an exception.

7. (quote-book) Small scombers will pass through the wide mesh of the walls but become entangled in the inner meshes; (..) Kolya and I were drawing up a net we had put out for scomber the evening before, at right angles to the shore. The catch was a thoroughly poor one. About a hundred scomber were tangled in the meshes of the net, five or six ruff, a few dozen golden-hued, fat little crucians and a very great deal of jellied, nacreous medusae, looking like enormous, colorless mushroom-heads, each with a multitude of stems.

8. (quote-journal) Scads and scombers are less abundant in the southern part of the Strait, relative to the northern Strait.

9. mackerel