单词 | muskellunge |
释义 | muskellungen. Chiefly North American. A large pike, Esox masquinongy, found in the Great Lakes region of North America, valued for eating and as a game fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Esocidae (pikes) > [noun] > esox nobilior (maskinonge) Oswego bass1758 maskinonge1789 muskellunge1794 lunge1851 Oswego1857 muskie1894 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 122 The Pike or Pickerel abounds much in Lake Champlain. It is there called by the name of Muschilongoe. 1827 ‘T. Phlogobombos’ Buccaneers ii. iv. 259 The arrows of thy enemies have..fallen to the earth as heavily as the musklonghi plunges in the deep lake. 1842 J. E. De Kay Zool. N.-Y. iv. 223 The Muskellunge, or Maskinonge, for its orthography is not settled, occurs abundantly in Lake Erie. 1856 Porter's Spirit of Times 1 Nov. 142/3 Esox Boreus, or the northern pike..ranks next to the muscalonge among our lake fishes. 1866 Athletic Sports for Boys 133 To catch large pike or muskelunjeh. 1868 B. J. Lossing Hudson (new ed.) 61 Lake George..abounds with fine fish, the largest and most delicious being the Masque alonge. 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 466 At Sacket's Harbor very few Muskellunge are caught. 1894 Outing 24 454/1 A dinner of muscallonge steaks. 1919 Outing Mar. 308/3 We silently made up our minds that he should not go, and..that the crew of the muskellunge troller would consist of us two alone. 1946 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 18 July 1/4 Gen. Dwight D. ‘Ike’ Eisenhower and his four brothers all continued their fishing luck Wednesday when they hit the jack pot with a muskellunge each. 1959 E. Tunis Indians 40/2 Not to be despised, however, was the big pike called muskellunge by the Algonquins, the name it still bears. 1985 Ecology 66 425/2 The rapidity with which mudminnow populations respond is comparable to that observed for perch..following an introduction of the piscivorous muskellunge. 1987 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 73 993 Without native precedent,..we might still be searching for suitable names for..the muskellunge and quahog. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1794 |
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