单词 | river garfish |
释义 | > as lemmasriver garfish river garfish n. any of various freshwater halfbeaks of the family Hemiramphidae occurring in Australian rivers; esp. the common and widespread Hyporhamphus regularis. ΚΠ 1871 Industr. Progress New S. Wales iii. 789 In these lakes black-bream, tarwine, flat-head, whiting, river gar-fish, and several varieties of mullet, are the chief net fish. 1951 T. C. Roughley Fish & Fisheries Austral. 22 As a food-fish the sea garfish has the same characteristics as the river garfish. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes iii. 35/1 Of two species of common Australian halfbeaks or garfishes (Hemiramphidae), scales remain in the river garfish, Hyporhamphus regularis, but are easily lost in the sea garfish, H. australis. < as lemmas |
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