单词 | beluga sturgeon |
释义 | > as lemmasbeluga sturgeon a. The great sturgeon or hausen, Huso huso, a very large predatory fish found mainly in the Caspian and Black Seas and their tributary rivers. More fully beluga sturgeon.The beluga, the largest species of fish found in fresh water, has been extensively caught for its roe (caviar) and is now regarded as an endangered species. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > [noun] > infraclass Chondrostei > order Acipenseriformes > member of genus Huso beluga1591 whitefish1662 1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth iii. f. 11v For fresh water fish..they haue diuers kinds very good & delicate: as the Bellouga, or Bellougina of 4. or 5. elnes long. 1698 tr. H. W. Ludolf Observ. conc. Products of Russia iii. in tr. A. Brand Jrnl. Embassy from Muscovy 126 Beluga, or White-Fish [L. Beluga], is sometimes found in the Danube, near Comorrah. 1716 J. Perry State of Russia 98 The Wolga, which is one of the greatest Rivers that is discharg'd into that Sea [sc. the Caspian], abounds with Bolluga, a Fish of about 8 or 10 Foot long. 1747 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 453 Its Flesh is whiter than Veal; whence the Name Belluga, or the white Fish... Of its Row or Spawn is made the Cavear. 1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. II. lvii. 368 The various species of Sturgeon attain a great size, one—the Beluga—often measuring twelve or fifteen feet in length. 1950 O. A. Titelbaum tr. L. S. Berg Nat. Regions USSR iii. 66 The Amur sturgeon (Acipenser schrencki) and the long-snouted sturgeon (Huso dauricus)..in the Amur takes the place of the beluga sturgeon (Acipenser huso), a species absent in Siberia. 1994 Outdoor Canada May 48 (advt.) He landed a true monster of the deep: a 250lb. Beluga Sturgeon. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 July viii. 7/3 Would I catch one of the sturgeons, maybe a 10-foot-long beluga..or perhaps the aspius, a fierce fish-eating carp? < as lemmas |
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