单词 | spring herring |
释义 | > as lemmasspring herring spring herring n. (a) North American the alewife (alewife n.2), Alosa pseudoharengus (now rare); (b) an Atlantic herring ( Clupea harengus) of a variety or subspecies which spawns in the spring, esp. as caught in inshore waters during or after the spawning stage. [In sense (b) probably after Norwegian vårsild kind of herring caught in spring (18th cent. or earlier; the work cited in quot. 1876 summarizes a debate on the nature of these fish conducted in a Norwegian journal over several issues in the early 1870s).] ΚΠ 1815 Trans. N.Y. Lit. & Philos. Soc. 1 454 Spring Herring, or Alewife. 1876 Rep. U.S. Commissioner Fish & Fisheries 205 We have advanced some steps in understanding..by proving that the summer-herring only represents different stages in the life of the spring-herring. 1884 M. MacDonald in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 579 The ‘Spring’ Herring or ‘Alewife’, Clupea vernalis. 1973 J. Seymour & S. Seymour Self-sufficiency xvi. 216 Spring herring are generally spent. 1991 I. Dore New Fresh Seafood Buyer's Guide 4 Alewife Alosa pseudoharengus. River herring is an alternative market name. Gaspareau, gaspergoo and gray, white or spring herring are not legally acceptable names. 2017 E. Ojaveer Ecosyst. & Living Resources Baltic Sea iii. 104 The experiments..showed no normal descendants hatched from the spring herring eggs fertilized with autumn herring sperm. < as lemmas |
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