| 单词 | bastard snapper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbastard snapper bastard snapper n. U.S. either of two marine fishes with reddish colouring, the mangrove snapper, Rhomboplites aurorubens, and the red porgy, Pagrus pagrus. ΚΠ 1867 H. Latham Black & White 122 The fisherman..ladled strange bright fish out of the well, to show me bastard snappers and squirrel-fish. 1884 R. E. Earll Catal. Fish-cultural Exhibit U.S. Fish Comm. in Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 27. 1198 Sparus pagrus L... Spawning grounds for this species occur off the Carolina coast, this being the only locality within our borders where the bastard snapper is taken. 1943 Copeia No. 4. 214 Rhomboplites aurorubens... Distinctively shaped and partaking in little of the lutianid characteristics, it is called by fishermen..the ‘bastard snapper’. < as lemmas |
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