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单词 crucian
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Definition of crucian in English:

crucian

(also crucian carp)
noun ˈkruːʃ(ə)nˈkruʃən
  • A small olive-green to reddish-brown European carp of still or slow-moving waters, important as a farmed fish in eastern Europe.

    Carassius carassius, family Cyprinidae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I love shallow, weedy, silted up estate lakes to pursue crucian carp, tench, bream and carp and I love the sort of creeping and crawling tactics needed to get within inches of the fish.
    • All lakes contain mixed species including roach, tench, bream, crucians and perch.
    • I continued to fish on, catching crucians with the odd roach to 1lb 6oz for the next 4 hours.
    • There are also rudd, bream, eels, gudgeon, crucian carp, tench, minnows, perch, sticklebacks, the odd trout, pike and barbel present.
    • A feeder angler was taking some nice tench and crucians on corn.
    • Ron likes the match lake as it has a good head of mixed fish including carp, roach, bream, orfe, crucians and some good koi.
    • Besides these phylogenetic analyses, recombination events were occasionally observed between transferring alleles of silver crucian carp and color crucian carp.
    • Despite being a member of the carp family, crucians are much more delicate feeders than their larger cousins.
    • However, pike, salmon, sea trout, brown trout, rainbow trout, carp, crucian carp, tench, chub, barbel, zander and other exotic species have all been caught.
    • More recent introductions include double figure bream, carp to 20 lb and many roach, rudd, skimmers, tench and crucians.
    • All the carp were removed in order to prevent them hybridising with the crucians (most important if you want to keep the strain pure).
    • Twenty years later, with the extraction site flooded, the lake began to produce rudd, perch and crucian carp to a few local anglers.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Low German karusse, karutze, perhaps based on Latin coracinus, from Greek korax 'raven', also denoting a black fish found in the Nile.

 
 

Definition of crucian in US English:

crucian

(also crucian carp)
nounˈkro͞oSHənˈkruʃən
  • A small olive-green to reddish-brown European carp of still or slow-moving waters, important as a farmed fish in eastern Europe.

    Carassius carassius, family Cyprinidae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All lakes contain mixed species including roach, tench, bream, crucians and perch.
    • Twenty years later, with the extraction site flooded, the lake began to produce rudd, perch and crucian carp to a few local anglers.
    • There are also rudd, bream, eels, gudgeon, crucian carp, tench, minnows, perch, sticklebacks, the odd trout, pike and barbel present.
    • I love shallow, weedy, silted up estate lakes to pursue crucian carp, tench, bream and carp and I love the sort of creeping and crawling tactics needed to get within inches of the fish.
    • However, pike, salmon, sea trout, brown trout, rainbow trout, carp, crucian carp, tench, chub, barbel, zander and other exotic species have all been caught.
    • All the carp were removed in order to prevent them hybridising with the crucians (most important if you want to keep the strain pure).
    • A feeder angler was taking some nice tench and crucians on corn.
    • I continued to fish on, catching crucians with the odd roach to 1lb 6oz for the next 4 hours.
    • More recent introductions include double figure bream, carp to 20 lb and many roach, rudd, skimmers, tench and crucians.
    • Ron likes the match lake as it has a good head of mixed fish including carp, roach, bream, orfe, crucians and some good koi.
    • Despite being a member of the carp family, crucians are much more delicate feeders than their larger cousins.
    • Besides these phylogenetic analyses, recombination events were occasionally observed between transferring alleles of silver crucian carp and color crucian carp.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Low German karusse, karutze, perhaps based on Latin coracinus, from Greek korax ‘raven’, also denoting a black fish found in the Nile.

 
 
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