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单词 hardyhead
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hardyheadn.

Brit. /ˈhɑːdɪhɛd/, U.S. /ˈhɑrdiˌhɛd/, Australian English /ˈhʌːdihed/
Forms: 1800s– hardyhead, 1900s– hardihead.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hardy adj., head n.1
Etymology: Probably < hardy adj. + head n.1
Originally Australian.
Any of various small silvery fishes of the family Atherinidae; esp. the marine fish Atherinomorus lacunosus of the Indo-Pacific, and freshwater fishes of the genus Craterocephalus, which are endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Also more fully hardyhead silverside.
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1879 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 3 353 Atherina pinguis, Lacep. Hardy Head.
1912 Forest & Stream 27 Apr. 550/2 These include species new to Moreton Bay—a hardihead, materially differing from the common species; a pipe fish, [etc.].
1936 T. C. Roughley Wonders Great Barrier Reef 207 Small fishes known as ‘hardyheads’, which grow to..about four inches, frequently congregate in shoals so dense that they lie like a solid mass in the water.
1977 J. M. Thomson Field Guide Common Sea & Estuary Fishes 107 Not unlike small mullet, the hardyheads are often called silversides from the broad silver stripe which many of the species carry along the sides.
1993 R. van der Elst Guide Common Sea Fishes Southern Afr. (ed. 3) ii. 123/2 During the day, hardyhead silversides gather into large shoals to shelter in the lee of reefs.
2014 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 27 Dec. 73 I recommend you..use small baitfish like hardiheads, whitebait or baby blue pilchards.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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