Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Lobotinæ, having bands of villiform teeth on the jaws, and an anterior series of larger conical teeth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The type genus of the
Lobotidae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Lobotidae
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Examples
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Now and again a heavy old Flasher (lobotes surinamensis) comes to hand in the more southern waters, and his pull on the line is so constant and powerful that the fishermen of Bald Head (Smith's Island) have named him the "Steamboat."
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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