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单词 red horse fish
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red horse fish
a. Any of various North American suckers (freshwater fishes of the family Catostomidae), of the genus Moxostoma or related genera, having the lower fins (and often the dorsal fin and tail) bright red or orange. Frequently with distinguishing word. Also more fully red horse fish, red horse sucker.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Catostomidae (suckers) > unspecified and miscellaneous types
sucker1753
jumping-mullet1767
buffalo-fish1774
buffalo1789
red horse1796
sucking carp1804
carpsucker1828
hogmolly1877
hogsucker1877
suckerel1888
hog mullet1889
1796 B. Hawkins Let. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. IX. 38 This is the most valuable creek known here for..trout, perch, rock, red horse.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 663 The rivers are well stocked with..trout, perch, cat-fish, buffaloe-fish, red horse, eels, &c.
1866 Athletic Sports for Boys 142 For bait you can use minnows, large chubs, small suckers, red-horse, or frogs.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 437 The ‘Red Horses’ belong to the genus Moxostoma and the related Minytrema and Placopharynx, and usually have their lower fins bright red.
1927 R. H. Early Campbell Chron. & Family Sketches 132 Red horse fish from the Staunton run up into Otter river.
1949 ‘J. Nelson’ Backwoods Teacher 11 He showed us a ‘red horse’ swimming among the roots of a willow.
1992 Canad. Geographic Mar. 23 There are even a few [freshwater fishes] exclusive to the Richelieu River basin, like the copper redhorse, a shy member of the sucker family.
1996 Vermont Life Autumn 92/2 On this short river he has landed..bluegills, crappies, red-horse suckers, river suckers, [etc.].
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