| 单词 | windowpane flounder |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswindowpane flounder 2. Originally U.S. More fully windowpane flounder. A flatfish of the western Atlantic, Scophthalmus aquosus (family Scophthalmidae), with a deep rhomboidal body that is partly translucent. Also called sand flounder. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Scophthalmidae (turbot) > member of windowpane1873 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Scophthalmidae (turbot) > genus or member of Scophthalmus > scophthalmus aquosus (sand dab) sand dab1839 windowpane1873 daylight1880 1873 T. Gill Catal. Fishes East Coast N. Amer. 17 Lophopsetta maculata... Spotted turbot; window-pane (New Jersey); sand flounder (New York). 1902 F. M. Johnson Forest, Lake & River II. Index 368 Window-pane Flounder. 1904 St. Nicholas Sept. 1034 (caption) A typical left-sided flounder of the east coast of the United States. It is called ‘window-pane’ and ‘daylight’ by fishermen because it is exceedingly thin and transparent. 1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways (1991) ix. iii. 350 Flats that are too small to take to market—the ones we call ‘windowpanes’—those fish end up on the pier as lobster bait at six dollars a box. 2005 W. S. Johnson & D. M. Allen Zooplankton Atlantic & Gulf Coasts 292 Windowpane larvae are common to abundant during the warm months. 2011 N.Y. Mag. 18 July 110/2 He was using the six-inch net, so there weren't a lot of wasted fish, just a few see-through windowpane flounder. < as lemmas |
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