Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Coregonus pennanti, a kind of whitefish abundant in some of the Welsh lakes, in Ullswater, England, and in many lakes in Europe. It is gregarious, and may be taken in great numbers at a draft. Also
guiniad . Seewhitefish and Coregonus.
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- noun A
freshwater fish native to Bala Lake inWales .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bala Lake, the largest in Wales (4 m. long by some ¾ m. wide), is subject to sudden and dangerous floods, deep and clear, and full of pike, perch, trout, eel and _gwyniad_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The _gwyniad_ (Caregonus) is peculiar to certain waters, as those of Bala Lake, and is fully described by Thomas Pennant in his _Zoology_ (1776).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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We had been out filming the gwyniad - that unique fish which is a relic of the ice age - which only resides in Llyn Tegid.
WalesOnline - Home 2010
hernesheir commented on the word gwyniad
It's a fish.
January 2, 2012