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silure
silure Ichth. (sɪˈljʊə(r)) [a. F. silure, ad. L. silūrus Silurus.] A siluroid fish, esp. the sheat-fish (Silurus glanis). In Shaw's Gen. Zool. (1804) V. i. 9–27 several species are enumerated.1802–3 Pallas' Trav. (1812) I. 21 The silures and sterlets, a smaller species of sturgeon, are caught only i...
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Silurus
Silurus Ichth. (sɪˈljʊərəs) Pl. Siluri. [a. L. silurus, a. Gr. σίλουρος. Cf. silure.] A genus of fish typical of the family Siluridæ; (also with lower-case initial) a fish belonging to this genus, esp. the sly silurus (S. glanis) or sheat-fish, one of the largest fresh-water fishes of Europe.1601 Ho...
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Other works of stratigraphic and palaeontological content describe the layeredness in Cambodia and Silure at Rostanga (1880) and reports of geological
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vittated
ˈvittated, a. Zool., Ornith., etc. rare. [f. as prec. + -ed2.] = prec. 1. Only in the specific names of a few birds, reptiles, etc.1790 Latham Ind. Ornith. II. 827 Procellaria vittata,..Vittated Petrel. 1802 Shaw Gen. Zool. III. ii. 533 Vittated Snake. Coluber Vittatus. 1804 Ibid. V. i. 22 Vittated ...
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undecimal
unˈdecimal, a. [f. L. undecim eleven.] Characterized in some way by the number eleven.1804 Shaw Gen. Zool. V. i. 24 Undecimal Silure... Silure with single dorsal fin of eleven rays. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 1397/1 The numeration [of the New Zealanders] is undecimal by successive multiples of eleven...
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unarmed
unˈarmed, ppl. a. Also 3 uniarmed, 5 Sc. unermyt, onarmed. [un-1 8.] 1. Not armed; having no armour or weapons.1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 11274 Vn iarmed out he wende to þe barons wel stille. c 1330 Arth. & Merl. 6947 (Kölbing), Vnarmed were þe paiens alle, Our folk hem gun to talle. 1387 Trevisa Higden...
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sheat-fish
sheat-fish (ˈʃiːtfɪʃ) Also sheath-fish (ˈʃiːθ-), sheet-. [The earlier form sheath-fish is prob. f. sheath1, after the G. schaid(e, scheid(e masc. (now scheiden masc.; OHG. had sceida fem.), which Gesner De Piscibus (1558) regarded as cogn. w. scheide fem. sheath n., supposing that the fish was named...
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whale
▪ I. whale, n. (hweɪl) Forms: 1 hwæl, 3–4 whal, wal, 4–5 wall, 4–7 whall, 5 wale, 5–6 whalle, 7 whaill, wheal, 4– whale; chiefly Sc. and north. 3 qual, 4 quale, 5 qwal, qwall(e, qwaylle, 5–6 quhail(l, 6 quhale, quhell. [OE. hwæl, corresp. to OHG., MHG. wal (G. walfisch whalefish, q.v.), ON. hvalr (S...
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silver
▪ I. silver, n. and a. (ˈsɪlvə(r)) Forms: α. 1 siolfor (siolofr-, siolufr-), seolfor, -fur, -fer (seolfr-, seulfr-), 2–3 seoluer (seolur-, 2 seolure), 3 soluer, solure. β. 2, 5 selfer (2 selfr-), 4 selfur; 3–5 seluer (3 selur-, 4 zeluer), 4–5 selver. γ. 1 sylofr, sylfor, -fur, 2 syluer, sylure; 1 su...
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