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kelt

/kelt/US // kɛlt //UK // (kɛlt) //

坎特,坎儿井,坎特尔,坎特人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a salmon that has spawned.

Examples

  • Bull trout very rarely takes fly or bait of any kind, except when it is in the kelt state, when it is ravenous.

  • "I thought a kelt was a kind of a no-weel fish," he interposed.

  • The lager-drinking Irishman in a few generations will be a new type of humanity—the Kelt at his best.

  • She always impresses me as a sort of atavistic idealization of the old Kelt at his finest and best.

  • An old "kelt" salmon has been seen to devour fifty of his own progeny for breakfast; and the pike is a greater water-wolf still.