horned pout
- noun
- /hɔrnɪd paʊt/
- US
:
pez gato cornudo
- Many anglers in the region use worms to bait horned pout after sunset.
Examples
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The children were excited to catch a horned pout while fishing at the lake.
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Have you ever caught a horned pout before?
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A horned pout can be identified by its whisker-like barbels and slightly flattened head.
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The horned pout is a popular fish in local lakes.
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While fishing at the lake, we caught several horned pout in just a few hours.
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The horned pout is a popular fish among anglers in eastern North America.
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Kids love to go fishing for horned pout during summer vacations at the camp.
Synonyms
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7.7
A small freshwater fish like a catfish with a wide flat head
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6.4
A small fish with a thick body, broad flat head and whisker-like feelers near its mouth
A small freshwater catfish found in ponds and creeks in the eastern United States
A small catfish like a brown bullhead from the eastern United States
A small freshwater catfish with whisker-like feelers and brownish skin found in the eastern United States
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun is a straightforward adjectival compound: 'horned' (having horns) + 'pout' (a small freshwater catfish) yields a type of pout characterized by horn-like structures, so the meaning is directly compositional. Adjective+noun animal naming is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent meanings should be able to infer this term.
Etymology
Horned pout may come from the fish's look: it has stiff spines that seem like little horns and a mouth that points down and looks like a pout. Fishermen used that picture to name the brown bullhead, so today horned pout means 'a small freshwater catfish'.