alewife

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈeɪlwʌɪf/    美 /ˈeɪlˌwaɪf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woman who keeps an alehouse. archaic
  2. A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus.
    — In his System of Nature, A. D. 1776, Linnæus declares, “I hereby separate the whales from the fish.” But of my own knowledge, I know that down to the year 1850, sharks and shad, alewives and herring, against Linnæus’s express edict, were still found dividing the possession of the same seas with the Leviathan.
  3. Any of several species similar in appearance.

词形变化

alewives plural alewives plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Alewife Brook

词源

词源 1
From ale + wife.
词源 2
Unknown. Possibly from aloof, the Narragansett name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture of maize in America, “Phil Trans.” No. 142, p. 1065, and Baddam’s “Memoirs,” vol. ii. p. 131.
Possibly from allowes (“a type of shad”), from French alose (“shad”), from Old French [Term?], from Late Latin alausa, influenced by Etymology 1 due to large belly of the fish.
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