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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
AETGA
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SALVELINUS (5)
Here's your game and here's your prize! Hover near him, lure him, tease him, Do your very best to please him, Dancing on the water foamy, Like the frail and fair Salome, Till the monarch yields at last; Rises, and you have him fast! Then remember well your duty,-- Do not lose, but land, your booty; For the finest fish of all is _Salvelinus Fontinalis._ So, you plumed illusions, go, Let my comrade Archie know Every day he goes a-fishing I'll be with him in well-wishing.
Even the grand lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush really) are taken in this way in the spring and fall when they come in upon the shallows.
While the common or brown trout (_Salmo fario_) and the rainbow trout (_Salmo irideus_) are, in my opinion, to be strongly encouraged in the waters suitable to their respective qualities, the American brook trout (_Salvelinus fontinalis_) does not seem to have met with the approval of most of the authorities on pisciculture in this country.
But in the clear streams of Eastern Canada, near the great lakes, its place is taken by the spotted trout (_Salvelinus fontinalis_), a beautiful and game fish, member of the char family, unknown west of the Rockies.
Etym: [G.] (Zoöl.) Defn: A large salmon (Salmo, or Salvelinus, hucho) inhabiting the Danube; -- called also huso, and bull trout.