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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
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"Delicious!"
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Sentences with MERLUCCIUS (5)
Also, the fish _Gadus merluccius_, a well-known gregarious and voracious fish of the cod family, often termed sea-pike.
HAKE (_Merluccius vulgaris_), a fish which differs from the cod in having only two dorsal fins, and one anal.
There are local variations in the use of "hake" as a name; in America the "silver hake" (_Merluccius bilinearis_), sometimes called "whiting," and "Pacific hake" (_Merluccius productus_) are also food-fishes of inferior quality.
The _Asellus_ has been identified as the _Gadus merlangus_, the “Cod;” and as the _Merluccius vulgaris_, the “Hake,” by Scaliger and Rondolet, and by Hardouin with some doubt.
The hake (_gadus merluccius_) is generally supposed to be the _gadus_ of Athenæus (vii); the _asellus_ of Ovid, Varro, and Pliny; and _oniscus_ of Marcellus Sideta.