| 单词 | yellow eel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow eel yellow eel n. an eel (esp. the common European eel, Anguilla anguilla, and the American eel, A. rostrata) during the developmental stage lasting from 5 to 20 years in which it becomes fully grown and typically has a yellowish belly and sides, and which is prior to its maturation as a silver eel; (also) this developmental stage itself.Cf. silver eel n. at silver n. and adj. Compounds 2d. ΚΠ 1817 W. Kitchiner Apicius Redivivus sig. F4 The yellow eels are apt to taste muddy. 1908 Amer. Naturalist 42 493 The yellow eels, as they migrate, undergo a considerable change in appearance, passing from the stage known as the yellow eel to that of the silver eel. 1998 Habitat Plan S. Atlantic Region (S. Atlantic Fishery Managem. Council) iii. 285 Yellow eels remain in estuaries or rivers for up to 14 years before undertaking the spawning migration back to the Atlantic Ocean. 2014 Bangor (Maine) Daily News 2 Sept. Maine..is enforcing the interstate commission's yellow eel minimum size limit, adopted in 2013, of nine inches. < as lemmas |
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