| 单词 | river carp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasriver carp river carp n. (a) the common carp, Cyprinus carpio, as occurring in rivers; cf. pond carp n. at pond n. Compounds 2; (b) U.S. any of several suckers of the genus Carpiodes; esp. the river carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > cyprinus carpio (carp) carpc1440 river carp1653 seizling1688 koi1727 looking-glass carp1811 king carp1874 mirror carp1879 scale carp1884 mirror1986 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xii. 236 [Bait] for a River Carp . View more context for this quotation 1726 Gentleman Angler 63 Carp spawn generally in May, or the beginning of April, especially the River-Carp. 1820 New Monthly Mag. Aug. 134/1 The lively deep gold scales distinguish the river carp from those kept in ponds. 1888 S. A. Forbes in Bull. Illinois State Lab. Nat. Hist. 2 453 Ictiobus cyprinus, LeS. River Carp; Carp Sucker... I include..all the so-called species of river carp sometimes separated under the genus Carpiodes. 1922 Sci. Monthly Feb. 193 There was also a good number of sheepshead, river carp (which the Lake Pepin fishermen call ‘white carp’), red horses, and a mud cat. 2002 J. Bailey Where to Coarse Fish in Brit. & Ireland 32 The late, great Peter Stone..always felt a thirty-pound river carp was just round the corner for him. < as lemmas |
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