英语词汇“characin”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

characin

/ˈkarəsɪn

noun

A small and brightly coloured freshwater fish native to Africa and tropical America.

Family Characidae: numerous species, including the piranhas and popular aquarium fishes such as the tetras.

Each year since 1960, more than 35 tropical American species of fishes, including catfishes, characins, electric fishes, killifishes, and cichlids, have been newly described and named....

And some fossil catfishes, lungfishes, and characins date back to the Late Cretaceous, 70 million years ago.
These streams are occupied on the south slope by a subset of the fish that characterize freshwater rivers in the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela, including cichlids and characins.

Origin

Late 19th century: from modern Latin Characinus (genus name), from Greek kharax, literally 'pointed stake', denoting a kind of fish.

单词	characin
释义	characin /ˈkarəsɪn / noun A small and brightly coloured freshwater fish native to Africa and tropical America. Family Characidae: numerous species, including the piranhas and popular aquarium fishes such as the tetras. Each year since 1960, more than 35 tropical American species of fishes, including catfishes, characins, electric fishes, killifishes, and cichlids, have been newly described and named.... And some fossil catfishes, lungfishes, and characins date back to the Late Cretaceous, 70 million years ago. These streams are occupied on the south slope by a subset of the fish that characterize freshwater rivers in the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela, including cichlids and characins. Origin Late 19th century: from modern Latin Characinus (genus name), from Greek kharax, literally 'pointed stake', denoting a kind of fish.
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