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单词 inanga
释义

inangan.

/ˈinaŋa/
Forms: Also inaka (the South Island form).
Etymology: Maori.
1. The New Zealand name for a small fish, Galaxias attenuatus, the young form of which is called whitebait.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > [noun] > member of family Galaxiidae
mudfish1502
inanga1845
cockabully1874
smig1879
mountain trout1882
kokopu1886
jolly-tail1892
minnow1898
bully1912
1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventure in N.Z. II. 100 This fish is called hinanga, and resembles Blackwall whitebait in size and flavour.
1896 Australasian 28 Aug. 407/3 About the same size as this fish is the ‘inaka’ much used for bait.
a1939 ‘R. Hyde’ Houses by Sea (1952) 64 Brown women drying out inanga.
1944 Mod. Jun. Dict. (Whitcombe & Tombs) 209 Inanga, Inaka, the Maori name of the small fish called ‘whitebait’ in New Zealand; inanga in the north, inaka in the south.
1959 N. B. Tindale & H. A. Lindsay Rangatira x. 93 Every year shoals of the tiny, delicious inanga fish came up the creeks from the sea.
1962 Post-Primary School Bull. (N.Z.) 15 i. 26 Whitebait belongs to the species Galaxias attenuatus... The adult fish, called Inanga, reach a length of about four inches.
2. An evergreen shrub or small tree, Dracophyllum longifolium, belonging to the family Epacridaceæ and native to New Zealand.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > evergreens
pine1788
angophora1804
ohia1815
pate1832
pohutukawa1832
Moreton Bay chestnut1836
Olearia1839
horopito1847
ramarama1848
matipo1853
white pine1856
musk tree1866
manoao1867
patete1867
puka1867
rangiora1867
tawhiri1872
tarata1876
lemon-wood1879
Otago ivy-tree1883
horizontal1888
lehua1888
inanga1889
mountain pine1889
puka1889
Queensland kauri1889
sheep-bush1889
wilga1889
mutton-bird tree1891
tree-daisy1926
1889 T. Kirk Forest Flora N.Z. 215 Mr. Charles Traill informs me that it [sc. Dracophyllum longifolium] is termed ‘inaka’ by the Maoris on Stewart Island.
1910 L. Cockayne N.Z. Plants 76 In similar situations [sc. along the coastline] the inuka (Dracophyllum longifolium) and the smaller New Zealand flax (Phormium Cookianum) are common.
1929 W. Martin N.Z. Nature Bk. viii. 126 The Inanga ranges in size from a small shrub..to a tree 15 to 30 ft. high.
1961 H. H. Allan Flora N.Z. I. 532 D. longifolium... Inanga... The Forsterian specimens I have seen are scrappy.
1968 N.Z. Listener 15 Mar. 6/5 Lying in its sheltered cove..complete with its own rata tree, inaka bushes, and great cushy heaps of golden-green moss.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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