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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of Asiatic catfishes of the family Siluridæ: so called from the adhesive apparatus or sucking-disk formed by plaits of skin between the pectorals, enabling the fish to cling to stones in the mountain streams which it inhabits.

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