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snook

/snook, snook/US // snuk, snʊk //UK // (snuːk) //

斯诺克,苏克,蛇口,蛇头

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural snook, snooks.

    • : any basslike fish of the genus Centropomus, especially C. undecimalis, inhabiting waters off Florida and the West Indies and south to Brazil, valued as food and game.
    • : any of several related marine fishes.

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Examples

  • On Pushing Daisies, her Olive Snook was lonely, lovesick, and brokenhearted, while still positively hysterical.

  • Along the edges of shoals and mud-flats and over grassy banks the snook will be found at home.

  • Owing to this dark stripe the cobia is sometimes called sergeant-fish, thus confounding it with the snook.

  • It is known as snook on the east coast, and as rovallia on the west coast, a corruption of its Cuban name, robalo.

  • It was carved all over with the totemic images of the eagle and the brown bear, the totems of Snook's family.

  • A few days after this visit to Snook's house I was sitting in my house, which was within the stockade of the old fort.