单词 | old man snapper |
释义 | > as lemmasold man snapper old man snapper n. (also old man schnapper) Australian a squirefish, Chrysophrys auratus, that is large and mature. ΚΠ 1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales (caption) An ‘old man schnapper’. 1965 Austral. Encycl. VIII. 169 Full-grown specimens develop a large bony protuberance on the nape, and a peculiar flabby and fleshy nose, which produces a somewhat human appearance and has earned for them the name of old-man snapper. 1974 J. M. Thomson Fish Ocean & Shore 126 A squire becomes a snapper at about one and a half kilos and thereafter matures to the old man snapper stage which may reach eighteen kilos. < as lemmas |
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