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walleye

/wawl-ahy/US // ˈwɔl aɪ //UK // (ˈwɔːlˌaɪ) //

鲑鱼,鲸鱼,鳟鱼,马利鱼

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural wall·eyes, wall·eye.

    • : Also called walleyed pike, jack salmon. a large game fish, Stizostedion vitreum, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of northeastern North America; pikeperch.
    • : any of various other fishes having large, staring eyes.
    • : an eye characteristic of a walleyed person or animal.
    • : Military. a series of television-guided bombs with high-explosive warheads, in production since the 1960s.

Examples

  • It’s hard to go wrong with any of the area’s campsites, but among the best are those at Horseshoe Lake, a narrow, scenic body of water that is home to excellent walleye fishing.

  • The biggest problem is likely with walleye recruitment, according to Greg Sass, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource’s fisheries research team leader.

  • Natural walleye reproduction has dropped so much that from 1990 to 2000, about 60 percent of northern Wisconsin’s waters were sustained entirely by wild walleye.

  • Billy Towler—alias Walleye—looked after him with an air of uncertainty.

  • Because brood-stock of the major sport-fishes is already present, stocking is unnecessary, except for walleye and northern pike.

  • Rack turned the walleye toward him, as though he could see out of it.

  • The spirits of trout and salmon and bass and walleye and sunfish and pike, all the fish of lakes and streams that fed his people.

  • "Calm down, boy," he said, his staring walleye gleaming in the lantern light.