单词 | thread-herring |
释义 | > as lemmasthread-herring thread-herring n. popular name of (a) Dorosoma cepedianum, also called the mud-shad or gizzard-shad (local, U.S.); (b) a clupeoid fish, Opisthonema thrissa, of the Atlantic coast of North America, in which the last ray of the dorsal fin is thread-like. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > doromosa cepedianum (hickory shad) hickory shada1816 shad-herring1845 mud shad1876 gizzard shad1884 stink-shad1884 white-eyed shad1884 winter shad1884 thread-herring1888 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 409 In the Chesapeake region it is known as the ‘Mud-Shad’,..in North Carolina as the ‘Hairy-back’ or the ‘Thread Herring’. < as lemmas |
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