| 单词 | hogchoker |
| 释义 | > as lemmashogchoker hogchoker n. U.S. an American sole, Trinectes maculatus (family Achiridae), found off eastern coasts of the United States. ΚΠ 1855 Smithsonian Inst. Rep. 1854 350 The New York Sole..is familiarly known at Beesley's point under the name of hog-choker, as when seized by the hogs it doubles itself up, and, filling the œsophagus, obstinately resists by the scabrous nature of its scales all effort on the part of the animal to swallow it. 1938 Ecol. Monogr. 8 341 Like other members of the order Heterosomata there was a great abundance of the hogchoker in September, 1932, both in Barataria Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xv. 268/1 The cynoglossid tonguefishes..[include] species that invade rivers (e.g., the hogchoker, Trinectes maculatus), as well as purely freshwater forms. < as lemmas |
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