Gilt-head
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gilt-head is a noun meaning The gilt-head bream.
Meaning
The gilt-head bream.
Example Sentences
An underwater hunter spots gilt-heads under twenty, twenty-five or even thirty feet of water.
The common gilt-head (C. aurata) is the one best known. It is exceedingly abundant in the Mediterranean, and not rare on the west coast of Spain, Portugal, and France.
To give another instance: upon examining the fins of a fish to me unknown, I find them prickly; I then look for the situation of the ventral fins, I find them entirely wanting; this then must be a prickly-finned apodal fish. Of this kind there are but three; and, by comparing the fish with the description, I find it either of the trichurus kind, the sword-fish, or the gilt-head.
Word Forms
- gilt-heads
- gilthead
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gilthead, dourada, goldney, greenhead, roughhead, bighead.
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