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单词 oquassa
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Oquassan.

Brit. /əʊˈkwɒsə/, U.S. /ˌoʊˈkwɔsə/, /ˌoʊˈkwɑsə/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymons: proper name Oquassa, Oquossoc.
Etymology: < Oquassa, variant of the name of Oquossoc Lake, former name of Rangeley Lake, Maine, where the fish was found until 1904.Compare scientific Latin oquassa, specific name in the former binomial Salmo oquassa (C. Gerard 1854, in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 4 263).
U.S. regional. Now rare.
A landlocked arctic char of the endemic subspecies Salvelinus alpinus oquassa, found in certain lakes in Maine. Also oquassa trout.It is now thought possible that all the arctic char of eastern North America may be referable to this subspecies.
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1879 G. B. Goode Catal. Coll. Animal Resources & Fisheries U.S.: Internat. Exhib. 1876 (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 14) 58 Salvelinus oquassa... Oquassa Trout... Rangely Lake, Me., and vicinity.
1883 J. J. Lalor Cycl. Polit. Sci. II. 215/2 The oquassa, or blue-backed trout (Salvelinus oquassa) of the lakes of Maine is a noteworthy American form.
1902 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Amer. Food & Game Fishes 217 Oquassa Trout; Blueback Trout... The blueback trout is the smallest and one of the most handsome of the charrs.
1925 J. A. Bellows & E. M. Tuttle Bk. Rural Life IX. 5608 A third fish of this group [sc. the chars] is the sea trout of eastern Canada, called also the oquassa, or Arctic char.
2001 People (Nexis) 15 Oct. 157 My favorite word [in Scrabble] was ‘oquassa’, which is a kind of trout.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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