单词 | pauhagen |
释义 | pauhagenn. U.S. regional. Now rare. The menhaden (fish), Brevoortia tyrannus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > brevoortia tyrannus (menhaden) old wife1585 yellowtaila1622 whiting1735 shadine1782 hardhead1792 menhaden1792 mossbunker1792 bony fish1815 pauhagen1833 pogy1840 green-tailed shad1884 schoolie1891 1833 J. V. C. Smith Nat. Hist. Fishes Massachusetts 160 The menhaden, amongst the older class of fishermen, towards New Hampshire and Maine, bears the Indian name of Pauhagen. 1838 Rep. Comm. Mass. Zool. Surv. 48 There are nearly three hundred and twelve thousand pohegans used for bait—and nearly as many thrown away, and strewed on the land for manure. 1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) at Menhaden Also known by the names Bony-fish, White-fish, Hardhead, Mossbonker, and Pauhagen. 1880 Amer. Naturalist 14 475 In the northern and eastern parts of New England, the Brevoortia is commonly called pauhagen, and probably in some localities ‘poghaden’... The Abnaki..name was pookagan as Rasles wrote it. 1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 212/1 Pauhagen. One of the New England names of the menhaden, or mossbunker... Other spellings are paughaden, poghaden, pauhaugen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1833 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。