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单词 burbot
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Definition of burbot in English:

burbot

noun ˈbəːbətˈbərbət
  • An elongated bottom-dwelling fish that is the only freshwater member of the cod family, occurring in Eurasia and North America but almost extinct in Britain.

    淡水鳕

    Lota lota, family Gadidae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was now time to go off and check the lines for burbot.
    • In mid Zeeland lies Fureso Lake - a real haven for pike, zander, burbot, bream and roach.
    • Other fishes, such as catfishes and burbots, probably eat the young shovelnose sturgeons.
    • Larger and deeper lakes, with oxygenated hypolimnions, will also have one or two larger salmonids, usually lake trout or landlocked Atlantic salmon, along with burbot and slimy sculpin.
    • They have huge expanses of fresh water, noted for the excellence of burbot, among many other species.
    • Fish that can be found in the lakes and rivers of the region include arctic lamprey, lake trout, lake and mountain whitefish, arctic cisco, longnose sucker, arctic grayling, dolly varden, burbot, walleye, and northern pike.
    • In freshwater, their main predators are burbot, lake trout, eels, bass, walleye, and whitefish.
    • By mid - summer, most stream sections contain primarily YOY grayling, along with slimy sculpin and burbot.
    • In outdoor mesocosm experiments, we tested the effects of decreasing shelter availability due to autumn lake-level decrease on the behavior and the growth of two littoral benthic dwellers, the juvenile burbot and the stone loach.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French borbete, probably from borbe 'mud, slime'.

Rhymes

Herbert, sherbet, turbot

Definition of burbot in US English:

burbot

nounˈbərbətˈbərbət
  • An elongated bottom-dwelling fish that is the only member of the cod family that lives in fresh water. It occurs in Eurasia and North America, but is almost extinct in Britain.

    淡水鳕

    Lota lota, family Gadidae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In freshwater, their main predators are burbot, lake trout, eels, bass, walleye, and whitefish.
    • In mid Zeeland lies Fureso Lake - a real haven for pike, zander, burbot, bream and roach.
    • By mid - summer, most stream sections contain primarily YOY grayling, along with slimy sculpin and burbot.
    • Other fishes, such as catfishes and burbots, probably eat the young shovelnose sturgeons.
    • In outdoor mesocosm experiments, we tested the effects of decreasing shelter availability due to autumn lake-level decrease on the behavior and the growth of two littoral benthic dwellers, the juvenile burbot and the stone loach.
    • Larger and deeper lakes, with oxygenated hypolimnions, will also have one or two larger salmonids, usually lake trout or landlocked Atlantic salmon, along with burbot and slimy sculpin.
    • It was now time to go off and check the lines for burbot.
    • They have huge expanses of fresh water, noted for the excellence of burbot, among many other species.
    • Fish that can be found in the lakes and rivers of the region include arctic lamprey, lake trout, lake and mountain whitefish, arctic cisco, longnose sucker, arctic grayling, dolly varden, burbot, walleye, and northern pike.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French borbete, probably from borbe ‘mud, slime’.

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