| 释义 |
omul|ˈəʊmʊl|
[a. Russ. omul´.]
A fish of the salmon family, Coregonus autumnalis, found in Lake Baikal and regions bordering the Arctic Ocean.
1884Encycl. Brit. XVII. 605/2 Only two species of fish are of any importance [in Novaya Zembla]—the goltzy (Salmo alpinus) in the western rivers, and the omul (Salmo omul) in the eastern. 1955Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. CVI. 279/2 The salmon-herring, or omul, has a spawning run of 1500 kilometers (930 miles) in the Yenesei [sic] River. 1969Nature 13 Sept. 1091/2 Lake Baikal is particularly noted for its reserves of omul'. 1970G. V. Nikolsky et al. in Lindsey & Woods Biol. Coregonid Fishes 257 The omul is an anadromous fish, which lives in waters of higher salinity than other coregonid fishes... Lake Baikal omul forms a separate subspecies. 1976‘S. Harvester’ Siberian Road i. 18 The Cossacks..went after sturgeon and omul, a white-fish. |