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mummichog

N ปลาช นิดหนึ่ง แถบ ชายฝั่ง แอตแลนติก  ple-cha-nid-nuang-tab-ad-lan-tik

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MUMMICHOG

Mum "mi *chog, n. Etym: [Amer. Indian name. ] (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Any one of several species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also minnow. [Written also mummychog, mummachog.]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

mummichog

mum mi chog |ˈməmiˌCHôg, -ˌCHäg ˈməmitʃɔɡ | ▶noun a small marine killifish that lives along the sheltered shores and estuaries of eastern North America. It is widely kept in aquariums and is also used as bait and for biological research. [Fundulus heteroclitus, family Fundulidae (or Cyprinodontidae ).] ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Narragansett moamitteaug.

 

Oxford Dictionary

mummichog

mummichog |ˈmʌmɪtʃɒg | ▶noun a small marine killifish which lives along the sheltered shores and estuaries of eastern North America. It is widely kept in aquaria and is also used as bait and for biological research. ●Fundulus heteroclitus, family Cyprinodontidae (or Fundulidae ). ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Narragansett moamitteaug.