| 单词 | river herring |
| 释义 | > as lemmasriver herring river herring n. U.S. †(a) the mooneye, Hiodon tergisus (obsolete rare); (b) any of several shads of the genus Alosa; esp. the alewife, A. pseudoharengus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > clupea serrata (ale-wife) old wife1585 alewife1633 river herring1842 kyak1849 Taunton turkey1851 1842 J. E. De Kay Zool. N.-Y. iv. 266 [The river mooneye] is known under the popular names of Herring, River Herring, and Toothed Herring. 1884 Cent. Mag. Apr. 909/2 The different townships on Cape Cod protect the alewife or ‘river herring’. 1977 Hongkong Standard 12 Apr. 2/8 Officials..found illegal amounts of river herring in the trawler's hold 240 miles southeast of Boston. 2003 Nat. New Eng. Summer 43/2 The watershed might have supported 14 to 38 million spawning alewife together with its anadromous look-alike, the blue-back herring, Alosa aestivalis. Collectively, these two species are called river herring, or gaspereau. < as lemmas |
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