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alewife 音標拼音: ['elw,ɑɪf] n. 啤酒店女主人,溫類 啤酒店女主人,溫類 alewife n 1: flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams 2: shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus [synonym: {alewife}, {Alosa pseudoharengus}, {Pomolobus pseudoharengus}] Alewife \Ale"wife`\, n.; pl. {Alewives}.
A woman who keeps an alehouse. --Gay. [1913 Webster] Alewife \Ale"wife`\, n.; pl. {Alewives}. [This word is properly aloof, the Indian name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture of maize in America, "Phil Trans." No. 142, p. 1065, and Baddam's "Memoirs," vol. ii. p. 131.] (Zool.) A North American fish ({Clupea vernalis}) of the Herring family. It is called also {ellwife}, {ellwhop}, {branch herring}. The name is locally applied to other related species. [1913 Webster]
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