It may be an arbitrary or jocular variation of dory itself from the French dorée gilded or perhaps an allusion to John Dory the hero.

Why is john dory called john dory. Various explanations are given of the origin of the name. On the model of Doe Collins English Dictionary - Complete Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition William Collins Sons Co. A related fish Zeus australis which is a valued food fish of Australia.

John Dory was the subject of a folk song from the 1600s although if there was ever any evidence of a link between this song and the fish it has been lost. In London on the afternoon of May 5 1848 a strange rain fell. John Dory in British English.

I found that because the frames were made of vertical-grained fir the pressure of the sheer clamps caused cracks in the frame notches. The origin of this fish name is slippery. The false eyes also have given John Dory another name.

Join Yahoo Answers and get 100 points today. The John Dory is an interesting looking fish that lives throughout the tropical and temperate latitudes of the world oceans except in the Americas ie except in the eastern Pacific and western Atlantic oceans. The golden skin of the fish found mostly in the Mediterranean may account for one possible reason why it is called John Dory since the French word for yellow is jaune and for golden is dorée.

The name of John Dory Fish comes from the black spot on each side that corresponds to the mark of the apostles fingers. Peters fingerprint hence thumbprint markings. The John Doryis an example of a fish known as a Dory The common namedoryfrom the Middle Englishdorre from the Middle Frenchdoree lit.

Its meat can be compared to the Turbot although the John Dory Fish has more spines. Grill it carefully the flesh tastes good but is also very lean and quickly goes dry. Grayish with a distinctive yellow-ringed black spot on each side it has long pelvic fins long filamentous dorsal-fin spines and rows of spines on the.