英语词汇“skipjack”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

skipjack

/ˈskɪpdʒak

noun

1 (also skipjack tuna) A small tuna with dark horizontal stripes, widely distributed throughout tropical and temperate seas. Also called bonito or oceanic bonito.

Katsuwonus (or Euthynnus) pelamis, family Scombridae.

About 80 percent of exports consist of frozen, dried, and salted skipjack tuna; canned fish; dried shark fins; and fish meal....

Skipjack is said to be very healthy and robust, and skipjack tuna is targeted mainly by the long line and the purse seine fishery.
There, the commercial fishermen patiently wait every year for the annual migrations of albacore, skipjack, yellowfin, big-eye and bluefin.

2 another term for click beetle.

3A sloop-rigged sailing boat of a kind used off the east coast of the US.Their motor-less sailing boats are called skipjacks, and are allowed to fish for oysters freely....

The backyard slopes down to a cold blue finger of Puget Sound, where Miller keeps his favorite toys - a skipjack, two kayaks, and a 47-foot yacht.
In the winter, many of the local watermen use hydraulic tongs to catch oysters, and a few skipjack boats continue to work out of Wenona harbor.

Origin

Early 18th century: from the verb skip¹ + jack¹. sense 1 is from the fish's habit of jumping out of the water; sense 2, sense 3 arose in the 19th century.

单词	skipjack
释义	skipjack /ˈskɪpdʒak / noun 1 (also skipjack tuna) A small tuna with dark horizontal stripes, widely distributed throughout tropical and temperate seas. Also called bonito or oceanic bonito. Katsuwonus (or Euthynnus) pelamis, family Scombridae. About 80 percent of exports consist of frozen, dried, and salted skipjack tuna; canned fish; dried shark fins; and fish meal.... Skipjack is said to be very healthy and robust, and skipjack tuna is targeted mainly by the long line and the purse seine fishery. There, the commercial fishermen patiently wait every year for the annual migrations of albacore, skipjack, yellowfin, big-eye and bluefin. 2 another term for click beetle. 3A sloop-rigged sailing boat of a kind used off the east coast of the US.Their motor-less sailing boats are called skipjacks, and are allowed to fish for oysters freely.... The backyard slopes down to a cold blue finger of Puget Sound, where Miller keeps his favorite toys - a skipjack, two kayaks, and a 47-foot yacht. In the winter, many of the local watermen use hydraulic tongs to catch oysters, and a few skipjack boats continue to work out of Wenona harbor. Origin Early 18th century: from the verb skip¹ + jack¹. sense 1 is from the fish's habit of jumping out of the water; sense 2, sense 3 arose in the 19th century.
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