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单词 sprat herring
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sprat herring
sprat herring n. Obsolete (a) a sprat ( Sprattus sprattus) or (young) herring; (b) U.S. regional (chiefly New York) a shad native to the Atlantic coast of North America, Alosa sapidissima.
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1812 Pennant's Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. 457 (heading) Sprat herring.
1815 S. L. Mitchill in Trans. Lit. & Philos. Soc. N.Y. 1 454 Sprat Herring of New-York. (Clupea indigena).
1879 Birmingham Daily Post 26 June 4/6 He thought the catching of sprat herrings in the month of January greatly interfered with the supply of mature fish in the summer.
1903 Bull. N.Y. State Mus. No. 278. 210 The fish [sc. the Atlantic thread herring, Opisthonema oglinum] is known there as the sprat herring.
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