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snapper 音標拼音: [sn'æpɚ] n. 咬人的狗,暴燥的人,撳鈕 咬人的狗,暴燥的人,撳鈕 snapper n 1: ( football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; " the center fumbled the handoff" [ synonym: { center}, { snapper}] 2: flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas 3: a party favor consisting of a paper roll ( usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends [ synonym: { cracker}, { snapper}, { cracker bonbon}] 4: Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots [ synonym: { snapper}, { Chrysophrys auratus}] 5: any of several large sharp- toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters 6: large- headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite [ synonym: { common snapping turtle}, { snapper}, { Chelydra serpentina}] Snapper \ Snap" per\, n. 1. One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Zool.) Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus { Lutjanus}, abundant on the southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical America. [ 1913 Webster] Note: The red snapper ({ Lutjanus aya} syn. { Lutjanus Blackfordi}) and the gray, or mangrove, snapper ({ Lutjanus griseus}) are large and abundant species. The name is loosely applied to various other fishes, as the bluefish, the rosefish, the red grouper, etc. See { Rosefish}. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Zool.) A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Zool.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Zool.) A snap beetle. [ 1913 Webster] 6. ( Teleg.) A device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder. [ Webster 1913 Suppl.] 7. A string bean. [ Colloq., U. S.] [ Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Rosefish \ Rose" fish`\, n. ( Zool.) A large marine scorpaenoid food fish ({ Sebastes marinus}) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also { red perch}, { hemdurgan}, { Norway haddok}, and also, erroneously, { snapper}, { bream}, and { bergylt}. [ 1913 Webster] Note: When full grown it is usually bright rose- red or orange- red; the young are usually mottled with red and ducky brown. [ 1913 Webster] 25 Moby Thesaurus words for " snapper": Klaxon, blunder, boiler factory, boiler room, bull- roarer, bumble, catcall, cherry bomb, clack, clacker, clapper, cracker, cricket, firecracker, horn, lurch, noisemaker, rattle, rattlebox, siren, steam whistle, ticktack, whistle, whizgig, whizzer
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