单词 | hackleback |
释义 | hacklebackn. 1. U.S. regional. A North American freshwater mussel, Lasmigona complanata, with rough ridges on the shell. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Unionidae > member of musseleOE palour1589 pearl mussel1607 hena1613 horse-mussel1626 clam1672 clamp1672 pearl shell1781 glam1797 naiad1829 naid1854 unionid1861 zebra mussel1866 hackleback1899 maple leaf1908 monkey-face1936 1899 H. M. Smith in Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. 1898 291 in U.S.Congress. Serial Set (55th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. 308) XC Another species not highly regarded [by button-makers] is the ‘hatchet-back’, or ‘hackle-back’, (Symphyonota complanata). This is a large black mussel with a projecting wing. 1908 G. F. Kunz & C. H. Stevenson Bk. of Pearl 73 Other well-known species are..the maple-leaf (Quadrula wardi), and the hackle-back. 1948 R. M. Shipley Dict. Gems & Gemol. (ed. 4) 99/1 Hackle back pearl, a fresh-water pearl of the Mississippi Valley, found, rarely, in the mussel Symphynota complanata, popularly known as the hackle back, hatchet back, or heel splitter. 1996 R. G. Howells et al. Freshwater Mussels Texas 72 White heelsplitter Lasmigona complanata... Other common names: Pancake, razorback, elephant-ear, hackleback. 2. Chiefly U.S. (originally regional). The shovelnose sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus, a small freshwater sturgeon of the Missouri and Mississippi river systems. Often attributive, esp. with reference to the use of its black roe as caviar. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > [noun] > infraclass Chondrostei > order Acipenseriformes > member of family Acipenseridae (sturgeon) sturgeona1300 sound1323 sturec1485 esox?1527 shirk?1706 isinglass-fish1740 hackleback1914 1914 Amer. Museum Jrnl. 14 38/2 Mr. Elwell receives quantities of shovel-nose, or ‘hackleback’, as they are locally called. 1932 Science 7 Oct. 323/2 The common names given to it in various parts of the Mississippi Valley are the sand sturgeon, shovelnosed sturgeon, switchtail or hackleback. 1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 19 Sept. 86/4 We hunt bullfrogs, eat the legs, fish catfish and hacklebacks. 1999 Newsweek 29 Nov. 78/2 The company also passed off cheaper American paddlefish and hackleback eggs as imports. 2011 L. Sackett et al. Professional Garde Manger vi. 237 Hackleback caviar is harvested from the hackleback sturgeon. It is similar to paddlefish caviar. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1899 |
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