Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of serranoid fishes. Lates nilotica is known as the Nile perch.
- noun A fish of this genus; the Nile perch. It sometimes grows to the length of 3 feet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of large percoid fishes, of which one species (
Lates Niloticus ) inhabits the Nile, and another (Lates calcarifer ) is found in the Ganges and other Indian rivers. They are valued as food fishes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
late .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a genus of large percoid fishes of fresh and brackish water
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Why to try just the floaters? as Buckhunter says just under surface one kind of fly never used ... the phantom something in lates 60's ...
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And then one reviewer called the lates Benn Affleck and Jennifer Lopez film a shrill mess.
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Then, in the past 6 weeks, one cd lost, one hardcover novel lost--and I'm being generous, when my inclination is to say STOLEN-- bills arriving weeks lates, meaning one or two days before "due dates".
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Then, in the past 6 weeks, one cd lost, one hardcover novel lost--and I'm being generous, when my inclination is to say STOLEN-- bills arriving weeks lates, meaning one or two days before "due dates".
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The only natural soldier of his class when, sorely against the will of most, they entered the student battalion, he promptly won the highest chevrons that could be given in the sophomore year, and, almost as promptly, lost them for "lates" and absences.
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Consequently, the booking curve has shortened and the mix of 'lates' market sales for summer 2010 has increased.
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As a result, it said it is having to give away more holidays in the cheap 'lates' market.
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