| 单词 | squawfish |
| 释义 | > as lemmassquawfish squawfish n. †(a) a marine fish (not identified) (obsolete rare); (b) any of several freshwater cyprinid fishes comprising the genus Ptychocheilus, native to the western United States and having an elongated head and body; also with distinguishing word.The preferred common name is now pikeminnow.Colorado squawfish: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > unspecified and miscellaneous type roach1637 roughhead1818 beardy1825 shiner1836 squawfish1871 mountain-barbel1880 1871 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 13 Oct. The ocean furnishes salmon, squaw fish, red fish, and occasionally a cod fish, all the year around. 1877 Daily Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 4 Sept. We learned next day that the latter [variety of fish] are called squaw-fish and that they are very full of bones. 1966 Copeia No. 3 614/2 Fish..taken from this pond during the study period included..several northern squawfish (Ptychocheilus oregonensis). 2005 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 2 Apr. e5 In Colorado, the endangered squawfish is now the Colorado pikeminnow. < as lemmas |
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