snoek

n. 杖鱼

别名

snook

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of several species of barracuda.

    南非
  2. 2.

    An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.

    南非

    2003, Oceanographic Literature Review, Volume 50, Issues 1-2600, page 348, Snoek (Thyrsites atun) is a valuable commercial species and an important predator of small pelagic fishes in the Benguela ecosystem. The South African population attains 50% sexual maturity at a fork length of ca.73.0 cm (3 years). Spawning occurs offshore during winter-spring, along the shelf break (150-400 m) of the western Agulhas Bank and the South African west coast

  3. 3.

    The queen mackerel, Scomberomorus lineolatus.

    南非

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

barracouta

上位词 1

food fish

词源

Borrowed from Afrikaans snoek, from Dutch snoek, from Middle Dutch snoec, from Old Dutch *snuoc. Some senses come from or are influenced by Dutch zeesnoek (“barracuda”, literally “sea pike”), a word that Van Riebeeck applied to the Thyrsites atun.

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