| 单词 | alewife |
| 释义 | alewife (once / 86273 pages) n An alewife is a small fish, a type of herring. Alewives are found in the Atlantic Ocean, primarily in the Northeast of the US and Canada. In Maine, the alewife is used for bait in lobster traps, and it's also eaten by people, often smoked. There are different names for alewives in different locations, including gaspereau in Atlantic Canada and kiack in Nova Scotia. In the 14th century, an alewife was a tavern or bar keeper's wife: the fish got the name in the 1600s, as a kind of bad joke, from the shape of its rounded abdomen. WORD FAMILYalewife: alewives USAGE EXAMPLESAlewives, shad, blueback herring, menhaden, silversides and sand eels plumbed the river’s depths in constantly shifting schools. New York Times(Nov 24, 2016) Shad, alewives, blueback herring and other migratory fish once were plentiful on the Penobscot. New York Times(Oct 24, 2016) The environmental group says it documented hundreds of dead alewives last weekend. Washington Times(Oct 21, 2016) 1n shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus Syn|Hyper Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus clupeid, clupeid fish any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas 2n flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams Hyper fish the flesh of fish used as food |
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