单词 | river cat |
释义 | > as lemmasriver cat river cat n. U.S. regional any of various North American catfish. ΚΠ 1770 G. Washington Diary 25 Oct. (1976) II. 299 At this place we..found a Cat fish of the size of our largest River Cats. 1804 W. Clark Jrnl. 18 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1986) II. 237 Mr. Ducett made me a present of rivr [sic] Catts. 1913 W. Williams Hist. Northeast Missouri I. 560 Fish of many varieties... the river cat, growing to large size, sometimes weighing as much as 175 pounds; the buffalo, pike..[etc.]. 2002 K. Adler & J. M. Fertig Fish & Shellfish 36 Chefs and catfish? It your first thought is ‘not a good combo’, then you need to forget memories of muddy-tasting, bottom-dwelling river cat. < as lemmas |
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