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单词 alevin
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alevinn.

Brit. /ˈaləvɪn/, U.S. /ˈæləvən/
Forms: 1800s– alevin, 1900s– alevine.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French alevin.
Etymology: < French alevin young fish (a1225 in Old French in uncertain sense, perhaps ‘young animals collectively’, in the idiom avoir son alevin corant ‘to be lucky’; subsequently from 15th cent.) < an unattested post-classical Latin form *adlevimen , alteration (after classical Latin nūtrīmen food ( < nūtrīre nourish v. + -men : see -ment suffix) of adlevamen (attested as allevamen in sense ‘relief’ (12th cent. in British sources)) < classical Latin adlevāre to rear (see alleve v.) + -men (see -ment suffix).
A young salmon or trout fry with the yolk sac still attached.
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1864 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 11 Mar. 273/1 On Saturday 90000 ova and alevins (young fry) were in the trays.
1882 Good Words Sept. 603 Into your hatching-boxes, amongst your trout and salmon eggs, or alevins.
1936 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 5 108 One larva seized a living trout alevin, killed and ate it.
1978 W. B. McCloskey Highliners (1980) vi. 74 The protected eggs..hatch in 120 to 180 days..into big-eyed larvae or alevins.
2011 Jrnl. Appl. Ichthyol. 27 868/1 Bigger females produced significantly larger eggs, which in turn produced significantly longer alevins.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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