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单词 dorado
释义

dorado1

nounPlural dorados dəˈrɑːdəʊdəˈrɑdoʊ
  • 1An edible marine fish of warm seas, with silver and bright blue or green coloration when alive.

    Family Coryphaenidae and genus Coryphaena: two species, in particular the large C. hippurus

    Also called dolphin
    Example sentencesExamples
    • At night we feasted on flesh fish caught off the coast like Wahoo, mahi-mahi, dorado, blue fin and swordfish mixed with rice and black beans.
    • We've seen a few dorado (aka mahimahi) skipping over the waves.
    • They also go after sunfish, marlin, and dorado, as well as manta rays (the largest of all the rays, these can weigh up to one and a half tons).
    • At the end of the fishing, we had well over 20 yellow fin, up to 30 lb, a couple of bonito, and a dorado, so I was extremely pleased.
    • We learn how to catch flying fish, and that a dorado in its death-throes flashes different colours in rapid succession.
  • 2A South American freshwater fish with a golden body and red fins, popular as a game fish.

    Salminus maxillosus, family Characidae

Origin

Early 17th century: from Spanish, literally 'gilded', from late Latin deauratus, from deaurare 'to gild over' (see also dory1).

Dorado2

proper noundəˈrɑːdəʊdəˈrɑdoʊ
Astronomy
  • 1A southern constellation (the Goldfish), containing most of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

    1. 1.1as genitive Doradus /dəˈrɑːdəs/ Used with preceding letter or numeral to designate a star in the Dorado constellation.
      the star R Doradus

Origin

Spanish (see dorado).

Rhymes

aficionado, amontillado, avocado, Bardo, Barnardo, bastinado, bravado, Colorado, desperado, eldorado, incommunicado, Leonardo, Mikado, muscovado, Prado, renegado, Ricardo, stifado
 
 

dorado1

noundəˈrɑdoʊdəˈrädō
  • 1

    another term for mahimahi
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They also go after sunfish, marlin, and dorado, as well as manta rays (the largest of all the rays, these can weigh up to one and a half tons).
    • At the end of the fishing, we had well over 20 yellow fin, up to 30 lb, a couple of bonito, and a dorado, so I was extremely pleased.
    • At night we feasted on flesh fish caught off the coast like Wahoo, mahi-mahi, dorado, blue fin and swordfish mixed with rice and black beans.
    • We've seen a few dorado (aka mahimahi) skipping over the waves.
    • We learn how to catch flying fish, and that a dorado in its death-throes flashes different colours in rapid succession.
  • 2A South American freshwater fish with a golden body and red fins, popular as a game fish.

    Salminus maxillosus, family Characidae

Origin

Early 17th century: from Spanish, literally ‘gilded’, from late Latin deauratus, from deaurare ‘to gild over’ (see also dory).

Dorado2

proper noundəˈrädōdəˈrɑdoʊ
Astronomy
  • 1A southern constellation (the Goldfish), containing most of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

    1. 1.1as genitive Doradus /dəˈrädəs/ Used with preceding letter or numeral to designate a star in the Dorado constellation.
      the star R Doradus

Origin

Spanish (see dorado).

 
 
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