单词 | frog-pike |
释义 | > as lemmasfrog-pike ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Esocidae (pikes) > [noun] > esox lucius (true pike) > female frog-pike1834 pikess1854 1834 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom X. 464 The young females..are termed in Germany frog-pikes, because they deposit their eggs at the same time as the frogs. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Frog-pike, a female pike, so called from its period of spawning being late, contemporary with the frogs. < as lemmas |
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