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单词 picuda
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picudan.

Brit. /pᵻˈkuːdə/, U.S. /pᵻˈkudə/
Inflections: Plural unchanged.
Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish picuda.
Etymology: < Central and South American Spanish (Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Panama) picuda barracuda (1607), use as noun of feminine of Spanish picudo pointed, beaked (1490) < pico beak (see pico- comb. form) + -udo , suffix forming adjectives from nouns. Compare earlier barracuda n. and (denoting a different fish, but showing a similar semantic development) pike n.3
The great barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, a large tropical fish of the western Atlantic which is readily provoked to attack humans and is valued as a game fish.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Sphyraenoidei (barracudas) > family Sphyraenidae > member of genus Sphyraena (barracuda)
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1882 Bull. U.S. National Mus. 16 412 S. Picuda, Picuda; Barracuda..West Indies, North to Florida.
1931 B. Miall tr. C. Guenther Naturalist in Brazil ii. 48 There is also, on the coast of north-eastern Brazil, a fish of the Mullet family, the Picuda, which is sometimes as much as six feet in length.
1963 H. Ulrich America's Best Deep-sea Fishing ii. 102 Barracuda... Other Names: Great barracuda, common barracuda, picuda, sea tiger, cuda.
1975 B. Felton & M. Fowler Best, Worst & most Unusual 234 The men work two or three short days a week fishing for picuda.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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