A bird or fish, especially a trout or a sockeye salmon, having a bluish back.
〈主北美〉蓝背鸟；蓝背鱼
Example sentencesExamples
The two largest and most important of the herrings were probably blueback herring (A. aestivalis) and hickory shad (A. mediocris).
Arctic char a close relative of the trout is often found in the cold, clear waters of glacial lakes where it is referred to as blueback, Sunapee, or Quebec red trout.
Waters up on the Appalachian Trail to the south hold Sunapee trout - a rare cousin of the blueback trout found only in a few Maine ponds.
Paddling over the six sets of rapids created by the dam removal, you think of the blueback herring that spawn in fast whitewater.
Some other common names for Oncorhynchus kisutch are coho, silver, blueback, and hook nose salmon.
Definition of blueback in US English:
blueback
nounˈblo͞obak
North American
A bird or fish, especially a trout or a sockeye salmon, having a bluish back.
〈主北美〉蓝背鸟；蓝背鱼
Example sentencesExamples
Arctic char a close relative of the trout is often found in the cold, clear waters of glacial lakes where it is referred to as blueback, Sunapee, or Quebec red trout.
Some other common names for Oncorhynchus kisutch are coho, silver, blueback, and hook nose salmon.
The two largest and most important of the herrings were probably blueback herring (A. aestivalis) and hickory shad (A. mediocris).
Waters up on the Appalachian Trail to the south hold Sunapee trout - a rare cousin of the blueback trout found only in a few Maine ponds.
Paddling over the six sets of rapids created by the dam removal, you think of the blueback herring that spawn in fast whitewater.