Talk:duckbill

RFV discussion: February–August 2015

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duckbill

Rfv-sense "The paddlefish." I cannot find uses, but filtering out the other senses may be the only obstacle. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 06:14, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

There are plenty of mentions: it seems to be US dialect, and is usually given as "duckbill cat" or "duckbill catfish". Equinox ◑ 00:08, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

I will add an attested entry at duckbill cat. DCDuring TALK 02:40, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Cited, IMHO. DCDuring TALK 10:54, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Not in my opinion. All but one of the citations hyphenates it, and all but one of the citations is of duck-bill cat or duck-bill catfish. - -sche (discuss) 04:32, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

RfV failed; sense deleted. I can't do any better. The connection is made in derived terms, via duckbill cat and duckbill catfish, anyway. DCDuring TALK 16:57, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

The only uses of "duckbill" to refer to a fish that I can find are referring to percophid fish, e.g. Larvae of Temperate Australian Fishes: Laboratory Guide for Larval Fish has a section on Percophidae: Sandishes, duckbills. - -sche (discuss) 22:38, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

The citations which had been under the "paddlefish" sense are these, which I would suggest moving to [[duck-bill cat]] except that they are all quite mentiony:

- -sche (discuss) 22:38, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

• It's hard to find citations that are at once certainly referring to a member of a specific taxon and not mentiony. If we remove them, I don't know how that helps. I suppose that redirects or unlinked synonyms would be adequate for someone who actually finds a use and wants to know what's being referred to, but most folks here believe, I think, that synonyms should meet CFI. DCDuring TALK 00:04, 27 July 2015 (UTC). DCDuring TALK 00:04, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Century prefers the form "duck(-)billed cat" (which several sources say is a distinctly {{lb|en|Mississippi}} term) for the paddlefish, and it is slightly better attested than the "-ed"-less form. Century also gives the fantastic species name "Polygon spatula". I did manage to find an amusing 1922 use, [moved to Citations:duck-billed cat]. - -sche (discuss) 07:59, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

We may yet manage to cite this apparently obsolete rare Mississippi dialect word! The 1892 citation is a solid use of "duck-bill catfish", 1880 is a use of both "duck-bill cat" and later "duck-bill", 1911 is mention(y). 1922 is a solid use of "duck-billed cats", and 1876+1878 (by the same author) probably counts as a second use, and 1896 seems like a third, so duck-billed cat is cited. - -sche (discuss) 08:22, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

RFV-failed in this form, but attested as duck-billed cat, to which I've left a link in duckbill. - -sche (discuss) 17:02, 7 August 2015 (UTC)