| 释义 |
mi·crop·ter·us
\ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷tərəs\ noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from micr- + -pterus; from the fact that the specimen on which the name was based had a mutilated dorsal fin and the author of the name consequently believed its fins were small
: a genus of sunfishes (family Centrarchidae) to which the American freshwater black basses belong |