Crossword-Solution: SILURUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Silurus | n. | A genus of large malacopterygious fishes of the order Siluroidei. They inhabit the inland waters of Europe and Asia. |
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| FISH (genus) | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAERT
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greedy person
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Sentences with SILURUS (5)
There were also collected by thousands those _“candirus,”_ a kind of small silurus, of which many are microscopic, and which so frequently make a pincushion of the calves of the bather when he imprudently ventures into their haunts.
Plutarch tells us of one Silurus that had eighty sons, whom he calls to him as he lay upon his death-bed, and gave them a sheaf of arrows, thereby to signify, that if they lived in unity, they might do much, but if they divided, they would come to nothing.
Roper; but during the afternoon they came to the other side of the lagoon opposite to our camp, and offered us some fish, a Silurus (Mao) and a tench (?) which they had speared in the lagoons.
What were two antelopes for one day's sport to the thousands that browsed over the plain? The animals taken to camp during our three days' sport were two buffaloes, two wild boar, three hartebeest, one zebra, and one pallah; besides which, were shot eight guinea-fowls, three florican, two fish-eagles, one pelican, and one of the men caught a couple of large silurus fish.
The fish is not so good as that caught further down, and the natives have a habit of narcotizing it: the Silurus electricus is exceptionally plentiful.