A large predatory marine fish of the drum family, found in the Mediterranean, eastern Atlantic, and south-western Indian Ocean. It is an important food fish in southern Africa.
〈南非〉全鳞白姑鱼
Argyrosomus hololepidotus, family Sciaenidae
Called meagre in Britain
Example sentencesExamples
Bake slowly. Allow 45 minutes to 1 hour for a 2.5 kg kabeljou.
Big tuna, kabeljou, sailfish, barracuda and many more are still regularly landed here.
The company fishes for snoek, kabeljou and calamari, and exports to the Ukraine and Cape Town.
Dishes include seafood, from kingklip, hake to kabeljou and mussels as well as lamb and chicken for the meat-lovers.
A magazine put up N$3000 for the biggest kolstert and the biggest kabeljou will fetch its catcher N$3000 put up by a local bank.
Origin
Early 18th century: from Afrikaans, from Dutch, 'cod'.