Meanings
plural zopes
- A fish of species Ballerus ballerus (syn. Abramis ballerus) native to Eurasia.
Before catching, more than half zopes, sandres and perches feed actively.
1974, B.S. Kuzin, editor, Biological and Hydrological Factors of Local Movements of Fish in Reservoirs, New Delhi: Amerind Publishing Co., page 3001 more example
The absolute fecundity of zopes on first maturing (at the age of 5 years) was less than that of those spawning for the second time.[…]On comparison of the fecundity of zopes of the same size and different age the data obtained proved contradictory to some extent.
1969, Problems of Ichthyology, American Fisheries Society, pages 390–391Synonyms: blue bream
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA fish of species Ballerus ballerus (syn. Abramis ballerus) native to Eurasia.
Origin
- GermanZope
- Englishzope
Unadapted borrowing from dialectal German Zope (French sope), probably from Slavic (compare Russian сапа́ (sapá)).
More words from German
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Estonian abakala
- abakalafish
Finnish sulkava
- sulkavafish
French brème bleue
- brème bleuefish
German Zope, Spitzpleinzen
- Zopefish
- Spitzpleinzenfish
Italian abramide medio, zope
- abramide mediofish
- zopefish
Polish rozpiór, siniec
- rozpiórfish
- siniecfish
Russian сине́ц
- сине́ц (sinéc)fish
Swedish faren
- farenfish
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