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单词 alburn
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alburnn.

Brit. /ˈalbəːn/, U.S. /ˈælbərn/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Perhaps also partly formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: alburnum n.; Latin alburnum; Latin alburnus.
Etymology: In sense 1 < alburnum n. or its etymon classical Latin alburnum. In sense 2 < post-classical Latin alburnus, kind of fish, perhaps the bleak (4th cent.), use as noun of masculine of classical Latin alburnus white, gleaming (see alburnum n.), so called on account of its silvery-white appearance; compare scientific Latin alburnus, used as a specific name of the bleak by Linnaeus ( Systema naturæ (ed. 10, 1758) 325), and later adopted (in form Alburnus) as a genus name by Rafinesque ( Western Rev. & Misc. Mag. (1820) May 236).
rare.
1. The sapwood of a tree; = alburnum n.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [noun] > young wood or alburnum
sapc1374
body?1523
wood?1523
alburnum1664
whitewood1668
blea1736
softwood1751
sap-wood1791
alburn1864
included sapwood1933
1864 J. C. Brough & A. J. Cooley Cycl. Pract. Receipts (ed. 4) 57/1 Alburnum, Alburn; Sapwood. In botany, the white and softer parts of the wood.
1994 Sci. Total Environment 157 62/1 (caption) Cesium-137 concentration in alburn and duramen of spruce and oak.
2. The bleak (a freshwater fish), Alburnus alburnus (family Cyprinidae).
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > genus Leuciscus > leuciscus alburnus (bleak)
blayc1000
bleak1496
bleise1598
river swallow1601
sea-chameleon1661
tailor1676
ablet1775
alburn1912
1912 V. S. Howard tr. A. Strindberg Easter 169 Out in the water neither roach nor alburn was seen, and consequently no sea-gulls or swallows appeared.
1997 H. A. Smith et al. tr. R. Riehl & H. A. Baensch Aquarium Atlas (ed. 6) I. 182 So is the Three-Spined Stickleback, the Minnow and possibly the Alburn and Leucaspius.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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