| 释义 |
skipjack
\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
(-s ; see sense 2)
1.
a. : a young conceited fop
b. obsolete : jockey
2. or pl skipjack : any of various fishes that jump above or play at the surface of the water: as
a.
(1) : any of various bonitos (as the Chile bonito or frigate mackerel)
(2) or skipjack tuna : a rather small large-eyed fish (Katsuwonus pelamis) that is bluish above and silvery below with oblique dark stripes on sides and belly and with a series of small finlets following both dorsal and anal fins, that is widely distributed in warm seas, and that is an important food and sport fish — called also oceanic bonito
b. : tenpounder
c. : rainbow runner
d. : a common freshwater herring (Pomolobus chrysochloris) of eastern No. America; also : any of several related fishes (as an alewife or gizzard shad)
e. : bluefish
f. : a small freshwater silversides (Labidesthes sicculus) of the southern United States
g. : a large pale green Australian percoid food fish (Temnodon saltator)
3. : click beetle
4. : a small sailboat with bottom similar to a flat V and the sides vertical or nearly so |