Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A very large genus of perch-like fishes found in the waters of Central and South America, and characterized by the large number of anal spines. The species are very numerous, one of them, H. cyanoguttatus, extending north to the waters of Texas.
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Examples
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Seriously, the lack of strong black role model super heros is the only reason anybody would call a foul on a popular black chr changing races.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - So who is the REAL Nick Fury? 2008
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The only people he hates are certain heros dillon on May 11, 2009
Bring On Venom! Sony Moving Forward With Venom Spin-Off! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The very reason they are called heros is because they save the day.
Local Authors Outsell The Da Vinci Code! Sharon Bakar 2006
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Attic, and you will see better that the name heros is only a slight alteration of Eros, from whom the heroes sprang: either this is the meaning, or, if not this, then they must have been skilful as rhetoricians and dialecticians, and able to put the question (erotan), for eirein is equivalent to legein.
Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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Wright, 21, held a news conference today at the Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, today thanking his rescuers, who he called heros .
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We see them called heros by the politicians who won't adequately fund their support.
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Yes | No | Report from tightliner09 wrote 9 hours 54 min ago villain are numerous, but my heros are my folks, and all my brother in arms, prior, current and future.
Heros n Villians 2009
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This is from the scene wherein our heros are about to get into the Milennium Falcon for the first time.
Crash, you are one inch away from - AAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! frankwu 2010
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Yes | No | Report from tightliner09 wrote 9 hours 54 min ago villain are numerous, but my heros are my folks, and all my brother in arms, prior, current and future.
Heros n Villians 2009
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My heros are the young, impoverished pro-democracy partisans that stand up to the thugs and military men who launch the coups wherever they are.
My Foreign Correspondent Hero: Lydia Polgreen « AAUW Dialog 2009
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