| 释义 |
nerka|ˈnɜːkə|
Also 8 nar-, naerka, 9 nerker.
[Evidently a native name, but the precise source is obscure.]
A common salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of Alaska and Kamtchatka.
1764J. Grieve Hist. Kamtschatka 150 Another species of fish is called muikisi and is about the bigness of the narka. 1784Pennant Arctic Zool. Introd. 125 The Naerka is another species called by the Russians Krasnoya ryba. 1888Goode Amer. Fish 481 The Nerka or Blue⁓back Salmon..known as the ‘Red fish’ to the English speaking inhabitants of Alaska and Kamtchatka. 1898F. T. Bullen Cruise of Cachalot xv. 185 One kind known as the ‘nerker’ was far better flavoured than any of the others. |