单词 | rock trout |
释义 | > as lemmasrock trout rock trout n. (a) New Zealand any of several New Zealand freshwater fishes of the genus Galaxias (family Galaxiidae), esp. the giant kokopu, G. argenteus, and the inanga, G. maculatus (now historical); (b) U.S. any of various greenlings (family Hexagrammidae) of the east Pacific, esp. of the genus Hexagrammos (now rare). ΚΠ 1843 J. E. Gray in E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. II. 219 Galaxias alepidotus... Named by the natives of Dusky Bay ‘He-para’, and by Cook's sailors ‘Rock-trout’. 1867 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 20 305 The settlers of at least some parts of New Zealand have dignified the larger kinds with the name of ‘trout’ or ‘rock-trout’. 1876 G. B. Goode Animal Resources U.S. 65 Rock trout (Chirus constellatus). 1945 J. H. Beattie Maori Place-names Canterbury 63 The panako is the rock trout, and is nearly extinct. 1955 Gloss. (U.S. Arctic Information Center) 67 Rock trout, an Alaskan term for several marine food fishes of the genus Hexagrammos of the North Pacific coasts. 1956 D. H. Graham Treasury N.Z. Fishes (ed. 2) 118 Minnow or Whitebait (Inanga) Austrocobitis attenuatus... The early settlers called it Maori Trout, Native Trout, Rock Trout and Minnow. rock trout rock trout n. Chirus constellatus (rock n.1 Compounds 2d).extracted from troutn.1< as lemmas |
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