单词 | red seed |
释义 | > as lemmasred seed red seed n. U.S. (now rare) plural (with singular or plural agreement) the small crustaceans on which mackerel feed. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > member of > small or eaten by mackerel red seed1880 1880 N.-Y. Times 5 Sept. 4/4 A multitude of smaller marine creatures were fond of the red seed also. 1884–5 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 193 The so-called red-seed exercises a deleterious effect on the flesh of the fish. 1913 A. Douglas Fast Nine 163 The different kinds of invertebrates on which the mackerel feed are known as ‘Cayenne’ and ‘red seed’. < as lemmas |
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