单词 | siscowet trout |
释义 | > as lemmassiscowet trout A fat-bodied variety or subspecies of the North American lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, found in deep water in Lake Superior. Also more fully siscowet salmon, siscowet trout. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salvelinus > salvelinus namaycush (lake trout) lake trout1661 Oswego bass1758 namaycush1775 siscowet1838 togue1839 touladi1846 lunge1851 Oswego1857 mackinaw trout1961 mackinaw1968 1838 A. Jameson Winter Stud. & Summer Rambles Canada III. 179 There is a fish found in great quantities in the upper part of Lake Superior, called the skevát. [Note] I spell the word as pronounced, never having seen it written. 1847 C. Lanman Summer in Wilderness 159 A fish called ciscovet, is unquestionably of the trout genus, but much more delicious. 1849 H. W. Herbert Fish & Fishing U.S. 145 The Siskawitz is rather shorter and stouter than the Mackinaw fish. 1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 318 Siscowet Salmon..is probably a local variety rather than a distinct species. 1902 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 15 243 Ciscoette. A name of the lake herring. Apparently a derivative, with French diminutive suffix, from Cisco (q.v.), but rather a corruption of Siskowit. 1979 Jrnl. Water Pollution Control Federation 51 1658/2 Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) and siscowet (Salvelinus namaycush siscowet) from Lake Superior were higher in PCB, DDT, and Hg than other fishes. 1999 G. E. Glass et al. in R. Ebinghaus et al. Mercury Contaminated Sites 467 Siscowet trout from the lake continue to show elevated mercury tissue levels. 2013 St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota) (Nexis) 19 May The study..estimates that fatty siscowets have lost about 20 percent of their historic habitat. < as lemmas |
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