dory
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9.0
- noun
- /ˈdɔri/
:
dorado
- The chef prepared a delicious dory with lemon and herbs for dinner.
- John Dory
Examples
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The restaurant featured dory on its menu, highlighting its unique flavor and texture.
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During a dinner at City Grit, April Bloomfield, chef from The Spotted Pig, The Breslin, and John Dory, will share the food behind her cookbook, "A Girl and Her Pig."
Blog text (23) -
Todays fish is a terrific John Dory, and the steak is an aged ribeye.
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In another example, the John Dory has at least four listings: once with just the family name Zeidae, under the A's as "American John Dory," with the Latin name Zenopsis ocellata, and also with the Latin name Zeus japonicus.
Academic text (1990) -
In another example, the John Dory has at least four listings: once with just the family name Zeidae, under the A's as "American John Dory," with the Latin name Zenopsis ocellata, and also with the Latin name Zeus japonicus.
Academic text (1990) -
They're smelts, ling, conger eel, John Dory, pilchards and frogfish.
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This whirlpool acts as a net, capturing a wealth of marine life including masses of blue-banded snappers, humpback, yellow and dory snappers, plus squirrel fish, soldier fish, and potato bass.
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During our fishing trip, we caught a beautiful dory swimming near the coral reef.
Synonyms
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A European fish with a round thin body and firm white flesh eaten as food
A fish with a deep, flat body and a dark spot on each side that lives near European coasts
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dory for the sea fish likely comes from the French word doré, which means 'golden', because some dory fish have a pale, shiny colour; the famous 'John Dory' helped the name stick. That's why dory now refers to these round, good-to-eat marine fish.