alewife
英 ['eɪlwaɪf]
美['el,waɪf]
- n. 开酒馆的女人， 啤酒店的女主人；拟西鲱，大肚鲱 [鱼]
英英释义
- 1. flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams
- 2. shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
英文词源
- 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.
词态变化
复数: alewives;