请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 elver
释义

Definition of elver in English:

elver

noun ˈɛlvəˈɛlvər
  • A young eel, especially when undergoing mass migration upriver from the sea.

    (尤指从海中向河上游洄游时的)幼鳗

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Measures are now being taken to decrease the impact of fisheries on A. rostrata populations in the United States, such as more closely regulating harvesting of glass eels and elvers.
    • If the water is clear enough, try fly fishing for them with any fly that imitates something small and silvery like an elver or sand eel or small fish.
    • In Cambray's freshwater fish surveys he met many farmers who have seen the little elvers and the large eels in their rivers and thought that the eels bred in the rivers.
    • There was a serious shortage of elvers in 1969, since when elvers of the European species have been imported from France.
    • Countries which used to buy mature eels from suppliers like Crowell are now buying elvers to raise and breed themselves.

Origin

Mid 17th century: variant of dialect eel-fare 'the passage of young eels up a river', also 'a brood of young eels', from eel + fare in its original sense 'a journey'.

Rhymes

delver

Definition of elver in US English:

elver

nounˈelvərˈɛlvər
  • A young eel, especially when undergoing mass migration upriver from the sea.

    (尤指从海中向河上游洄游时的)幼鳗

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Measures are now being taken to decrease the impact of fisheries on A. rostrata populations in the United States, such as more closely regulating harvesting of glass eels and elvers.
    • If the water is clear enough, try fly fishing for them with any fly that imitates something small and silvery like an elver or sand eel or small fish.
    • There was a serious shortage of elvers in 1969, since when elvers of the European species have been imported from France.
    • In Cambray's freshwater fish surveys he met many farmers who have seen the little elvers and the large eels in their rivers and thought that the eels bred in the rivers.
    • Countries which used to buy mature eels from suppliers like Crowell are now buying elvers to raise and breed themselves.

Origin

Mid 17th century: variant of dialect eel-fare ‘the passage of young eels up a river’, also ‘a brood of young eels’, from eel + fare in its original sense ‘a journey’.

随便看

 

英汉双解词典包含464360条英汉词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/10/19 16:26:22