Crossword-Solution: ARGULUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Argulus | n. | A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura. |
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| parasite on fish | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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ATREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with ARGULUS (3)
There are two kinds of parasitic creatures which are most commonly seen on various fish caught in the rivers and ponds of this country; and these are the _Argulus foliaccus_, a crustacean, and the _Piscicola piscium_, a small, cylindrical kind of leech.” _Mermaids._ From the earliest ages mermaids have had a legendary existence—the sirens of the ancients evidently belonging to the same remarkable family.
Forming a separate order (BRANCHIURA) apart from the more normal Copepoda (order EUCOPEPODA) is the little group of the Carp-lice, one of which, _Argulus foliaceus_, is common in England, living as a parasite on different species of fresh-water fish, and often found swimming free in ponds and rivers.
But upon the Monuments of _Smiths_ in _Gruter_, we meet with the Figures of _Hammers_, _Pincers_, and the like; and we find the Figure of a _Cobler's_ Awl on the Tomb of one of that Trade, which was in the Custody of _Berini_, as _Argulus_ hath set it down in his Notes upon ONUPHRIUS, _Of the Antiquities of_ VERONA.