Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
celure . - noun A siluroid fish; specifically, the sheat-fish. See cut under
Siluridæ .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A fish of the genus Silurus, as the sheatfish; a siluroid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fish of thegenus Silurus , such as thesheatfish ; asiluroid .
Etymologies
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Latin silurus ("a sort of river fish"), from Ancient Greek σίλουρος (silouros, "a very large sort of river fish").
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