| 单词 | madtom |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmadtom madtom n. any of various small North American freshwater catfishes of the genus Noturus (family Ictaluridae), which can inflict wounds with the poisonous spines in their pectoral fins. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Siluriformes (catfish) > [noun] > member of family Ictaluridae bullhead1674 horn-pout1798 horned pout1837 minister1839 channel cat1847 flannel-mouth1882 stone-cat1882 madtom1896 1896 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Check-list Fishes & Fish-like Vertebr. N. & Middle Amer. 234 Schilbeodes insignis..Mad Tom. Pennsylvania to South Carolina. 1947 B. W. Dalrymple Panfish 290 In the Stonecat and Madtoms, this adipose fin is long and low, and usually connected in a continuous line with the tail, or caudal fin. 1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 134 This industry has drained the local forests of oak bark and ceased to pour its acids and chromium salts and dyes into the Avon, which gradually recovered its clear color and its fish, its trout and perch and those bright little spiny, vicious catfish called madtoms. < as lemmas |
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