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单词 false pilchard
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false pilchard
2. Any of various other clupeid fishes that resemble the European pilchard and are used as food fish; spec. (a) U.S. the menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus (now rare); (b) any of various fishes of the genus Sardinops; esp. S. sagax of the Indo-Pacific; (c) U.S. (in full false pilchard) Harengula clupeola of the Caribbean and west Atlantic. Usually with distinguishing word.
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1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan ii. vii. 90 There are greate store of Pilchers.
1775 Jrnls. Continental Congr. 1774–89 (Libr. of Congr.) (1905) III. 503 Indian corn and fish are not to be had..except pilchards.
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 569 In Delaware Bay, the Potomac, and the Chesapeake, we meet with the ‘Alewife’, ‘Bay Alewife’, ‘Pilcher’ (Pilchard), and ‘Green-tail’ [as popular names for the menhaden].
c1939 Bk. Fishes (National Geographic Soc.) (rev. ed.) 244 [Sardinops sagax is] called pilchard in Washington and British Columbia, and California sardine in California.
1960 List Common & Sci. Names Fishes U.S. & Canada (Amer. Fisheries Soc.) (ed. 2) 10 False pilchard... Harengula clupeola.
1961 E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 74/1 In the Australian region one of the most important commercial species is the pilchard, Sardinops neopilchardus.
2002 National Geographic Aug. 9/1 Sharks, seals, seabirds, dolphins, and game fish converge on vast schools of Sardinops sagax, the South African pilchard, or sardine.
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