alewife

英式音标：['eɪlwaɪf]

美式音标：['eɪlwaɪf]

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概况：

n. 开酒馆的女人， 啤酒店的女主人；拟西鲱，大肚鲱 [鱼]

词义：

n.

啤酒店女主人；

变形

复数：alewives

英英释义

alewife

n.

flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams

shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus

同义词：Alosa pseudoharengusPomolobus pseudoharengus

用法：

权威例句

Alewife

Alewife

Alewife

The MIT Alewife Machine

The MIT Alewife machine: architecture and performance

The MIT Alewife Machine: Architecture and Performance

The MIT Alewife Machine: A Large-Scale Distributed-Memory Multiprocessor

The MIT Alewife Machine: A Large-Scale Distributed-Memory Multiprocessor

Effects of alewife predation on zooplankton populations in Lake Michigan

Habitat Relationships for Alewife and Blueback Herring Spawning in a Virginia Stream

Effects of the Spawning Migration of the Alewife, Alosa Pseudoharengus, on Freshwater Ecosystems

Restoration and Management of the New England Alewife Fisheries with Special Reference to Maine

Independent evolutionary origins of landlocked alewife populations and rapid parallel evolution of phenotypic traits.

英语词源：

alewife (n.)

herring-like fish of North America, 1630s, named from the word for female tavern keepers (late 14c.), from ale + wife; the fish so called in reference to its large abdomen.