释义 |
silure Ichth.|sɪˈljʊə(r)| [a. F. silure, ad. L. silūrus Silurus.] A siluroid fish, esp. the sheat-fish (Silurus glanis). In Shaw's Gen. Zool. (1804) V. i. 9–27 several species are enumerated.
1802–3Pallas' Trav. (1812) I. 21 The silures and sterlets, a smaller species of sturgeon, are caught only in the spring. 1804Shaw Gen. Zool. V. i. 10 European Silure. Silurus Glanis... The great or common Silure may perhaps be considered as the largest of all European river fishes. Ibid. 20 Rufous Silure... Native of South America. |