| 单词 | red dace |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred dace red dace n. now rare (a) North American the common shiner, Luxilus cornutus (family Cyprinidae); (b) British regional the roach, Rutilus rutilus. ΚΠ 1842 Nat. Hist. N.Y., Zool. iv. 208 The Red-fin. Leuciscus cornutus... Associated with the Brook Trout. It has the various popular names of Red-fin, Red Dace, and Rough-head. 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 176 [The roach is] sometimes termed red-dace from the colour of its fins. 1884 D. S. Jordan in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 617 The ‘Shiner’, ‘Red-fin’ or ‘Red Dace’ abounds in all streams from New England to Kansas and Alabama. 1911 Rep. Comm. U.S. Bureau Fisheries 1908 309/2 Dace, a common name applied to different species of the Cyprinidæ family, generally modified by some descriptive prefix, as ‘horned dace’, ‘red dace’, etc. 1993 Toronto Star (Nexis) 13 May br 2 A rare fish in Canada, the red dace, is present in the west branch of the Humber River. < as lemmas |
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