英语词汇menhaden的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

menhaden. This abundant oily fish has a name related to its use. Caught in great numbers by American Indians and buried in their corn fields, it bears an Algonquian name meaning “fer- tilizer.” It is also called the mosbunker, the bunker, the marsh- bunker, and by some 30 more popular names (see the American Naturalist XII, 1878, pp. 735–39 for a listing). In 1949 Brevoor- tia tyrannus was called “America’s No. 1 fish . . . yielding some $10 million worth of oil, meal, and dry scrap last year.”

词汇	menhaden
词源	menhaden. This abundant oily fish has a name related to its use. Caught in great numbers by American Indians and buried in their corn fields, it bears an Algonquian name meaning “fer- tilizer.” It is also called the mosbunker, the bunker, the marsh- bunker, and by some 30 more popular names (see the American Naturalist XII, 1878, pp. 735–39 for a listing). In 1949 Brevoor- tia tyrannus was called “America’s No. 1 fish . . . yielding some $10 million worth of oil, meal, and dry scrap last year.”
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