单词 | vendace |
释义 | vendace[ ven-dis, -deys ] / ˈvɛn dɪs, -deɪs / noun, plural ven·dac·es, (especially collectively) ven·dace.a whitefish, Coregonus vandesius, inhabiting lakes in Scotland and England. Origin of vendace1690–1700; originally Scots, apparently <French vandoise,Old French vendoise any of various cyprinid fish (<Gallo-Romance *vindisia, probably derivative of Celtic *wind- white, bright; compare Old Irish find,Welsh gwyn); perhaps conflated with a local Scots word (compare the variant gevenaces) Words nearby vendacevenality, venatic, venation, vend, Venda, vendace, Vendean, vendee, Vendémiaire, vender, vendetta Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for vendace
British Dictionary definitions for vendacevendace / (ˈvɛndeɪs) / noun plural -daces or -daceeither of two small whitefish, Coregonus vandesius (Lochmaben vendace) or C. gracilior (Cumberland vendace), occurring in lakes in Scotland and NW England respectivelySee also powan Word Origin for vendaceC18: from New Latin vandēsius, from Old French vandoise, probably of Celtic origin Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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