thymallus

thymallus [LL < θύμαλλος], kind of freshwater fish redolent of thyme, grayling (Thymallus thymallus). qui nomen habet timeos de flore ‘timallus’ / sic quoniam redolet vescentem sepius illo / protrahit ut tales oleant per flumina pisces V. Merl. 827; [pisces] ~is, qui vulgariter ‘umbre’ dicuntur, persimiles Gir. TH I 10; ~is ‥ in quorum laudem ‥ “quid” inquit [Ambrosius] “aspectu pulchrius, quid odore suavius, quid gustu jocundius?” Id. IK I 2 p. 33; est specie gratus placidoque sapore thymallus Neckam DS III 565; hic thimalus, a sperlynge WW; simallus, A. a sperlynge WW; hic tumalus, a sperlyng WW.