| 单词 | large-mouthed bass |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslarge-mouthed bass large-mouthed bass n. [after scientific Latin megastoma, specific name (1804 or earlier designating various species of fish, 1857 as the specific name of the bass (compare quot. 1857))] a large freshwater black bass of North America, Micropterus salmoides (family Centrarchidae), which is greenish with dark blotches.Cf. largemouth n. at large adj., adv., and n. Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1857 T. Garlick Treat. Artific. Propagation Fish xi. 108 The great distinguishing feature of this Bass, is its immense mouth, which has induced me to call it Grystes Megastoma, or large-mouthed Bass. 1956 Nature 3 Mar. 413/2 The fish is related to the freshwater large-mouthed bass of the eastern United States. 2007 B. Bouldrey Honorable Bandit iii. 71 I gasp in the thin air like a large-mouthed bass at the bottom of a bilged-out boat. < as lemmas |
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